Diamond Retrospective: File System Management (GLMFHS-110)

Context

In September 2020, Python 3 offered modern tools for file management, notably pathlib which greatly simplified path manipulation.

What is this article about?

The article explores file system management in Python: pathlib, file reading/writing, directory traversal and common operations.

Summary

File system management

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Published in GNU/Linux Magazine Special Issue #110, September 2020.

In this issue

This article is part of issue GLMFHS-110. Here are the other articles by Sébastien Chazallet in this issue:

• Getting started with Python 3
• Tools for Python developers
• Modern Python: how to code in Python in 2020?