Category: FileHandling
How to create a Directory in python ?
In this article we will discuss different APIs in python to create directories. Creating a Directory in Python Python’s OS module provides a function to create a directory i.e. Advertisements os.mkdir(path) It creates a directory with given path i.e. os.mkdir(‘tempDir’) It creates the directory ‘tempDir’ in current directory. Frequently Asked: Find the smallest file in …
How to change current working directory in python ?
In this article we will discuss how to change the current working directory in python. Current working directory is the directory in which program is running. Advertisements Change Current Working Directory in Python First of all we need to import python’s os module i.e. import os Python’s os module provides a function to change the …
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How to check if a file or directory or link exists in Python ?
In this article we will discuss techniques in python to check if a file exists or a link or a directory exists or not. Python – Check if a path exists Python’s os module provides a function to check if a given path exists or not i.e. Advertisements os.path.exists(path) It will True if the path …
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Read a file line by line in Python (5 Ways)
In this article we will discuss different ways to read a file line by line in Python. Suppose we have a file data.txt in same directory as our python script. Let’s see how to read it’s contents line by line. Solution for Small Files : Get list of all lines in file using readlines() First …
Python : How to move files and Directories ?
In this article we will discuss different ways to move files and directories in python. In python we have a shutil module that provides various files related operations. To import the shutil module use following line, Advertisements import shutil It also provides functions to move files i.e. shutil.move(src, dst) It accepts source and destination path as …
Python : Get Last Modification date & time of a file. | os.stat() | os.path.getmtime()
In this article we will discuss different ways to get the last modification date & time of a file and how to convert them into different formats. Get last modification time of a file using os.stat() os.stat(pathOfFile) It returns the status of file in the form of an os.stat_result object. It contains information related to a …
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Python : How to copy files from one location to another using shutil.copy()
In this article we will discuss how to copy files from one directory to another using shutil.copy(). shutil.copy() Python’s shutil module provides a function shutil.copy() i.e. Advertisements shutil.copy(src, dst, *, follow_symlinks=True) It copies the file pointed by src to the directory pointed by dst. Parameters: Frequently Asked: Python : How to remove files by matching …
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Python : How to get Last Access & Creation date time of a file
In this article we will discuss different ways to get the last access and creation timestamp of a file and how to convert them into different formats. os.stat() Python’s os module provides a function os.stat() Advertisements os.stat(pathOfFile) It accepts the path of file as argument and returns the status of file in the form of an …
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Python : How to remove files by matching pattern | wildcards | certain extensions only ?
In this article we will discuss how to delete few files from a directory based on matching pattern or wildcard. Suppose we have a directory that contains some log files and some text files and we want to delete all .txt files from that directory i.e. files that ends with string “.txt”. Let’s discuss how …
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Python : How to remove a file if exists and handle errors | os.remove() | os.ulink()
In this article we will discuss how to remove a file if only it exists and how to handle other types of exceptions using os.remove() & os.ulink(). How to remove a file using os.remove() python ‘s os module provides a function to remove the file i.e. Advertisements os.remove(path_of_file) It accepts the file path as argument …
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