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     2 .. _filesys:

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     5 File and Directory Access

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     8 The modules described in this chapter deal with disk files and directories.  For

     9 example, there are modules for reading the properties of files, manipulating

    10 paths in a portable way, and creating temporary files.  The full list of modules

    11 in this chapter is:

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    13 

    14 .. toctree::

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    16    os.path.rst

    17    fileinput.rst

    18    stat.rst

    19    statvfs.rst

    20    filecmp.rst

    21    tempfile.rst

    22    glob.rst

    23    fnmatch.rst

    24    linecache.rst

    25    shutil.rst

    26    dircache.rst

    27    macpath.rst

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    30 .. seealso::

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    32    Section :ref:`bltin-file-objects`

    33       A description of Python's built-in file objects.

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    35    Module :mod:`os`

    36       Operating system interfaces, including functions to work with files at a lower

    37       level than the built-in file object.

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