.. _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

   statvfs.rst

   filecmp.rst

   tempfile.rst

   glob.rst

   fnmatch.rst

   linecache.rst

   shutil.rst

   dircache.rst

   macpath.rst

.. seealso::

   Section :ref:`bltin-file-objects`

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

   Module :mod:`os`

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

      level than the built-in file object.