Core Python Programming

9.10. Related Modules

There are plenty of other modules related to files and input/output, all of which work on most of the major platforms. Table9.7 lists some of the file-related modules.

Table 9.7. Related File Modules

Module(s)	Contents
fileinput	iterates over lines of multiple input text files
getopt	provides command-line argument parsing/manipulation
glob/fnmatch	provides Unix-style wildcard character matching
gzip/zlib/zipfile[a]	allows file access to include automatic de/compression
shutil	offers high-level file access functionality
c/StringIO	implements file-like interface on top of string objects
tempfile	generates temporary file names or files

^[a] new in Python 1.6

The fileinput module iterates over a set of input files and reads their contents one ...