1.. _filesys: 2 3************************* 4File and Directory Access 5************************* 6 7The modules described in this chapter deal with disk files and directories. For 8example, there are modules for reading the properties of files, manipulating 9paths in a portable way, and creating temporary files. The full list of modules 10in this chapter is: 11 12 13.. toctree:: 14 15 pathlib.rst 16 os.path.rst 17 fileinput.rst 18 stat.rst 19 filecmp.rst 20 tempfile.rst 21 glob.rst 22 fnmatch.rst 23 linecache.rst 24 shutil.rst 25 26 27.. seealso:: 28 29 Module :mod:`os` 30 Operating system interfaces, including functions to work with files at a 31 lower level than Python :term:`file objects <file object>`. 32 33 Module :mod:`io` 34 Python's built-in I/O library, including both abstract classes and 35 some concrete classes such as file I/O. 36 37 Built-in function :func:`open` 38 The standard way to open files for reading and writing with Python. 39