{"id":1540,"date":"2019-02-27T02:18:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T02:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kusuaks7\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2023-08-25T10:45:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T10:45:53","slug":"ten-python-file-system-methods-you-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/bigdata-cloud\/ten-python-file-system-methods-you-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Python File System Methods You Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The file system is a bit like a house. Say you’re spring cleaning and you need to move boxes of notebooks from one room to another.<\/p>\n

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Directories are like boxes. They hold things.<\/span><\/p>\n

The boxes are like directories. They hold things. In this case, notebooks.<\/p>\n

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The notebooks are like files. You can read and write to them. You can put them in your directory boxes.<\/p>\n

Capiche?<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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In this guide we’ll look at methods from the os<\/em> and shutil<\/em> modules. The os<\/em><\/a>module is the primary Python module for interacting with the operating system. The shutil<\/em><\/a> module also contains high-level file operations. For some reason you make directories with os<\/em> but move and copy them with shutil<\/em>. Go figure. <\/p>\n

Update: pathlib discussion added Feb. 16, 2019<\/h4>\n

In Python 3.4 the pathlib<\/em><\/a> module was added to the standard library to improve working with file paths, and as of 3.6 is plays nicely with the rest of the standard library. The pathlib<\/em> methods provide some benefits for parsing file paths over the methods we’ll discuss below — namely pathlib <\/em>treats paths as objects rather than strings. Although pathlib<\/em> is handy, it doesn’t have all the lower level functionality we’ll be exploring. Also, you’ll undoubtedly see the os<\/em>and shutil<\/em> methods below in code for years to come. So it’s definitely a good idea to be familiar with them.<\/p>\n

I plan to discuss pathlib<\/em> in a future article, so follow me to make sure you don’t miss it. To learn more about the pathlib<\/em> module now, see this article<\/a> and this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A few other things to know before we dig in:<\/p>\n