The Python os module enables interaction with the operating system and provides methods for file processing operations like renaming, deleting, and creating directories. It includes methods such as rename() to rename a file, remove() to delete a file, mkdir() to create a new directory, getcwd() to get the current working directory, and chdir() to change the current working directory. The module also contains methods for writing Python output to files.
The Python os module enables interaction with the operating system and provides methods for file processing operations like renaming, deleting, and creating directories. It includes methods such as rename() to rename a file, remove() to delete a file, mkdir() to create a new directory, getcwd() to get the current working directory, and chdir() to change the current working directory. The module also contains methods for writing Python output to files.
The Python os module enables interaction with the operating system and provides methods for file processing operations like renaming, deleting, and creating directories. It includes methods such as rename() to rename a file, remove() to delete a file, mkdir() to create a new directory, getcwd() to get the current working directory, and chdir() to change the current working directory. The module also contains methods for writing Python output to files.
The Python os module enables interaction with the operating system and provides methods for file processing operations like renaming, deleting, and creating directories. It includes methods such as rename() to rename a file, remove() to delete a file, mkdir() to create a new directory, getcwd() to get the current working directory, and chdir() to change the current working directory. The module also contains methods for writing Python output to files.
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Python OS module
Renaming the file
• The Python os module enables interaction with the operating system. The os module provides the functions that are involved in file processing operations like renaming, deleting, etc. It provides us the rename() method to rename the specified file to a new name. The syntax to use the rename() method is given below. • Syntax: • rename(current-name, new-name) Example 1: 1.import os #rename file2.txt to file3.txt os.rename("file2.txt","file3.txt") Removing the file • The os module provides the remove() method which is used to remove the specified file. The syntax to use the remove() method is given below. remove(file-name)
import os #deleting the file named file3.txt os. ("file3.txt") • remove Creating the new directory • The mkdir() method is used to create the directories in the current working directory. The syntax to create the new directory is given below. • Syntax: mkdir(directory name) Example import os
#creating a new directory with the name new
os.mkdir("new") The getcwd() method • This method returns the current working directory. • The syntax to use the getcwd() method is given below. • Syntax os.getcwd() • Example import os os.getcwd() Changing the current working directory • The chdir() method is used to change the current working directory to a specified directory. • The syntax to use the chdir() method is given below. • Syntax chdir("new-directory") • Example
import os # Changing current directory with the new directiory os.chdir("C:\\Users\\venk\\Documents") #It will display the current working directory os.getcwd() Deleting directory • he rmdir() method is used to delete the specified directory. • The syntax to use the rmdir() method is given below. • Syntax os.rmdir(directory name) • Example 1 import os #removing the new directory os.rmdir("directory_name") Writing Python output to the files • In Python, there are the requirements to write the output of a Python script to a file. • The check_call() method of module subprocess is used to execute a Python script and write the output of that script to a file. • The following example contains two python scripts. The script file1.py executes the script file.py and writes its output to the text file output.txt. Example temperatures=[10,-20,-289,100] def c_to_f(c): if c< -273.15: return "That temperature doesn't make sense!" else: f=c*9/5+32 return f for t in temperatures: print(c_to_f(t)) The file related methods SN Method Description
1 file.close() It closes the opened file. The file once closed, it can't be read or write anymore.
2 File.fush() It flushes the internal buffer.
3 File.fileno() It returns the file descriptor used by the underlying implementation to request I/O from the OS.
4 File.isatty() It returns true if the file is connected to a TTY device, otherwise returns false.
5 File.next() It returns the next line from the file.
6 File.read([size]) It reads the file for the specified size.
7 File.readline([size]) It reads one line from the file and places the file pointer to the beginning of the new line.
8 File.readlines([sizehint]) It returns a list containing all the lines of the file. It reads the file until the EOF occurs using readline() function.
9 File.seek(offset[,from) It modifies the position of the file pointer to a specified offset with the specified reference.
10 File.tell() It returns the current position of the file pointer within the file.
11 File.truncate([size]) It truncates the file to the optional specified size.
12 File.write(str) It writes the specified string to a file
13 File.writelines(seq) It writes a sequence of the strings to a file.
