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.. _filesys:
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File and Directory Access
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The modules described in this chapter deal with disk files and directories. For
example, there are modules for reading the properties of files, manipulating
paths in a portable way, and creating temporary files. The full list of modules
in this chapter is:
.. toctree::
os.path.rst
fileinput.rst
stat.rst
filecmp.rst
tempfile.rst
glob.rst
fnmatch.rst
linecache.rst
shutil.rst
macpath.rst
.. seealso::
Module :mod:`os`
Operating system interfaces, including functions to work with files at a
lower level than Python :term:`file objects <file object>`.
Module :mod:`io`
Python's built-in I/O library, including both abstract classes and
some concrete classes such as file I/O.
Built-in function :func:`open`
The standard way to open files for reading and writing with Python.