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Section 1.3:: File System

The document discusses file systems and directories in Python. It covers: 1) Using the os module to get the current working directory, change directories, list directory contents, create/remove directories, and rename files and directories. 2) Using os.path to check if a file/path exists, check if something is a file or directory, and get the absolute path. 3) Examples of using os.path.abspath() to get the absolute path of files.

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Section 1.3:: File System

The document discusses file systems and directories in Python. It covers: 1) Using the os module to get the current working directory, change directories, list directory contents, create/remove directories, and rename files and directories. 2) Using os.path to check if a file/path exists, check if something is a file or directory, and get the absolute path. 3) Examples of using os.path.abspath() to get the absolute path of files.

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Section 1.

3:

File System
I. BEN NASR
File System
• Identify the platform running a Python • sys.platform
script • os: os.getcwd, os.chdir,
• Get the current working directory os.listdir, os.mkdir,
• Change the current working directory os.rmdir, os.rename
• List the content of the current working • os.path: os.path.abspath,
directory os.path.exists,
• Create and remove directories os.path.isfile, os.path.isdir
• Rename files and directories
• Recognize the difference between
relative and absolute paths
• Test whether a file or path exists

Section 1.3
The plateform module

• The platform module in Python is used to access the underlying


platform’s data, such as, hardware, operating system, and interpreter
version information.
• You start with importing the platform module in your program, like this:

import platform
Platform Functions

Let's have a look at the different platform functions we can use


• platform.architecture() returns information about the bit architecture
• platform.machine() returns the machine type, e.g. 'i386’.
• platform.node() returns the computer’s network name (may not be fully
qualified!)
• platform.platform() returns a single string identifying the underlying platform
with as much useful information as possible.
• platform.processor() returns the (real) processor name, e.g. 'amdk6’.
• platform.python_build() returns a tuple (buildno, builddate) stating the
Python build number and date as strings.
• platform.python_compiler() returns a string identifying the compiler used for
compiling Python.
• platform.python_version() returns the Python version as string
'major.minor.patchlevel’
Platform Functions

• platform.python_implementation() returns a string identifying the


Python implementation. Possible return values are: ‘CPython’,
‘IronPython’, ‘Jython’, ‘PyPy’.
• platform.release() returns the system’s release, e.g. '2.2.0' or 'NT’
• platform.system() returns the system/OS name, e.g. 'Linux',
'Windows', or 'Java’.
• platform.version() returns the system’s release version, e.g. '#3 on
degas’
• platform.uname() returns a tuple of strings (system, node, release,
version, machine, processor) identifying the underlying platform.
Example
import platform
print ('uname:', platform.uname())

uname_result(system='Windows', node='DESKTOP-IM03TR9', release='10', version='10.0.18362', machine='AMD64',


processor='Intel64 Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4, GenuineIntel’)

print ('system :', platform.system() )

system: Windows
Print('node :', platform.node() )

DESKTOP-IM03TR9
print ('release :’, platform.release())

10
Print ( 'version :’, platform.version())

'10.0.18362'
print 'machine :', platform.machine()

AMD64
print 'processor:', platform.processor()

'Intel64 Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4, GenuineIntel'


Python Directory
• how to handle with Python directory.
ocreate, rename, list files in a directory in Python,
and work with the Python Directory.
• In a computer system, files are organized into directories. These may
contain subdirectories and files.
• Indeed, this makes a vital part of a user-friendly UI.

• In this Python Directory tutorial, we will import the OS module to be


able to access the methods we will apply.
• >>> import os
Getting Current Python Directory

• To find out which directory in python you are currently in, use the
getcwd() method.

>>> os.getcwd()

'C:\\Users\\ben nasr\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python37’

>>>print(os.getcwd())

• cwd is for current working directory in python. This returns the path of
the current python directory as a string in Python.
Changing Current Python Directory

• To change our current working directories in python, we use the


chdir() method. This takes one argument- the path to the directory to
which to change.

>>> os.chdir('C:\Users\lifei')
Python List Directories and Files
1) To get the contents of a directory into a python list, we use the listdir() method.
>>> os.listdir()  ['DLLs', 'Doc', 'include', 'Lib', 'libs', 'LICENSE.txt', 'NEWS.txt', 'python.exe',
'python3.dll', 'python37.dll', 'pythonw.exe', 'Scripts', 'tcl', 'Tools', 'vcruntime140.dll']
2) How to Create Python Directory?
• We can also create new python directories with the mkdir() method.
>>> os.mkdir('Photos')
>>> os.listdir()  ['DLLs', 'Doc', 'include', 'Lib', 'libs', 'LICENSE.txt', 'NEWS.txt', 'Photos',
'python.exe', 'python3.dll', 'python37.dll', 'pythonw.exe', 'Scripts', 'tcl', 'Tools', 'vcruntime140.dll’]
3) How to Rename Python Directory?
• To rename directories in python, we use the rename() method. It takes two
arguments- the python directory to rename, and the new name for it.
>>> os.rename('Photos’,’Photos 2020’)
>>> os.listdir()  ['DLLs', 'Doc', 'include', 'Lib', 'libs', 'LICENSE.txt', 'NEWS.txt', 'Photos
2020', 'python.exe', 'python3.dll', 'python37.dll', 'pythonw.exe', 'Scripts', 'tcl', 'Tools', 'vcruntime140.dll']
Python List Directories and Files

4) How to Remove Python Directory/File?


>>> os.rmdir('Photos 2020')
>>> os.rmdir('Photos 2020')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#412>", line 1, in <module>
os.path
1) os.path.exists()
Using path.exists you can quickly check that a file or directory exists.
Steps 1) Before you run the code, it is important that you import the os.path
module.

>>> import os.path


>>> from os import path
Steps 2) Now, use the path.exists() function to check whether a File Exists.
A file
>>> path.exists('C:\\Users\\ben nasr\\Desktop\\python\\F1.txt’)
true
A directory
>>> os.path.exists('C:\\Users\\ben nasr\\Desktop\\python’)
true
os.path
2) os.path.isfile()
We can use the isfile command to check whether a given input is a file or directory.

>>>print ("Is it File?" + str(path.isfile('guru99.txt’)))


>>>print ("Is it File?" +
str(os.path.isfile('C:\\Users\\bennasr\\Desktop\\python\\F1.txt')))
>>>print ("Is it File?" + str(path.isfile('myDirectory')))
os.path

3) os.path.isdir()
If we want to confirm that a given path points to a directory, we can use the os.path.dir()
function
>>>print ("Is it Directory?" + str(path.isdir('guru99.txt')))
>>>print ("Is it Directory?" + str(path.isdir('myDirectory')))
os.path
• Parameter:
Path: A path-like object representing
3) abspath(path) a file system path.
• Return Type: This method returns a
normalized version of the pathname
path.
• Syntax: os.path.abspath(path)

Section
Example 1
# Python program to demonstrate
# os.path.abspath()

import os.path

# file name
file_name = 'GFG.txt'

# prints the absolute path of current


# working directory with file name
print(os.path.abspath(file_name))
Example 2
This function can also return the normalized path after changing the
current working directory.
# os.path.abspath()
import os
# file name
file_name = 'GFG.txt'
# change the current working directory
os.chdir("/home/geeks/")
# prints the absolute path of current
# working directory with file name
print(os.path.abspath(file_name))

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