1 2 .. _filesys: 3 4 ************************* 5 File and Directory Access 6 ************************* 7 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: 12 13 14 .. toctree:: 15 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 28 29 30 .. seealso:: 31 32 Section :ref:`bltin-file-objects` 33 A description of Python's built-in file objects. 34 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. 38 39