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# 11. File and Directory Access

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:

- 11.1. `os.path` — Common pathname manipulations
- 11.2. `fileinput` — Iterate over lines from multiple input streams
- 11.3. `stat` — Interpreting `stat()` results
- 11.4. `statvfs` — Constants used with `os.statvfs()`
- 11.5. `filecmp` — File and Directory Comparisons
  - 11.5.1. The `dircmp` class
- 11.6. `tempfile` — Generate temporary files and directories
- 11.7. `glob` — Unix style pathname pattern expansion
- 11.8. `fnmatch` — Unix filename pattern matching
- 11.9. `linecache` — Random access to text lines
- 11.10. `shutil` — High-level file operations
  - 11.10.1. Example
- 11.11. `dircache` — Cached directory listings
- 11.12. `macpath` — Mac OS 9 path manipulation functions

See also

Section File Objects
  A description of Python’s built-in file objects.
Module `os`
  Operating system interfaces, including functions to work with files at a lower level than the built-in file object.

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