.. _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
   filecmp.rst
   tempfile.rst
   glob.rst
   fnmatch.rst
   linecache.rst
   shutil.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.

   Module :mod:`io`
      Python's framework for dealing with I/O including reading and writing
      files.