1 .. _filesys: 2 3 ************************* 4 File and Directory Access 5 ************************* 6 7 The modules described in this chapter deal with disk files and directories. For 8 example, there are modules for reading the properties of files, manipulating 9 paths in a portable way, and creating temporary files. The full list of modules 10 in this chapter is: 11 12 13 .. toctree:: 14 15 pathlib.rst 16 os.path.rst 17 fileinput.rst 18 stat.rst 19 filecmp.rst 20 tempfile.rst 21 glob.rst 22 fnmatch.rst 23 linecache.rst 24 shutil.rst 25 macpath.rst 26 27 28 .. seealso:: 29 30 Module :mod:`os` 31 Operating system interfaces, including functions to work with files at a 32 lower level than Python :term:`file objects <file object>`. 33 34 Module :mod:`io` 35 Python's built-in I/O library, including both abstract classes and 36 some concrete classes such as file I/O. 37 38 Built-in function :func:`open` 39 The standard way to open files for reading and writing with Python. 40
