1 2.. _filesys: 3 4************************* 5File and Directory Access 6************************* 7 8The modules described in this chapter deal with disk files and directories. For 9example, there are modules for reading the properties of files, manipulating 10paths in a portable way, and creating temporary files. The full list of modules 11in 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