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File and Directory Access<a class="headerlink" href="#file-and-directory-access" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p>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:</p> <div class="toctree-wrapper compound"> <ul> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="os.path.html">10.1. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">os.path</span></tt> — Common pathname manipulations</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="fileinput.html">10.2. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fileinput</span></tt> — Iterate over lines from multiple input streams</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="stat.html">10.3. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">stat</span></tt> — Interpreting <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">stat()</span></tt> results</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="statvfs.html">10.4. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">statvfs</span></tt> — Constants used with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">os.statvfs()</span></tt></a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="filecmp.html">10.5. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">filecmp</span></tt> — File and Directory Comparisons</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="filecmp.html#the-dircmp-class">10.5.1. The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dircmp</span></tt> class</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="tempfile.html">10.6. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">tempfile</span></tt> — Generate temporary files and directories</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="glob.html">10.7. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">glob</span></tt> — Unix style pathname pattern expansion</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="fnmatch.html">10.8. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fnmatch</span></tt> — Unix filename pattern matching</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="linecache.html">10.9. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">linecache</span></tt> — Random access to text lines</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="shutil.html">10.10. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">shutil</span></tt> — High-level file operations</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="shutil.html#directory-and-files-operations">10.10.1. 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