18. File and Directory Handling
This chapter describes Python modules for high-level file and directory handling. Topics include modules for processing various kinds of basic file encodings such as gzip and bzip2 files, modules for extracting file archives such as zip and tar files, and modules for manipulating the file system itself (e.g., directory listings, moving, renaming, copying, and so on). Low-level operating system calls related to files are covered in Chapter 19, “Operating System Services.” Modules for parsing the contents of files such as XML and HTML are mostly covered in Chapter 24, “Internet Data Handling and Encoding.”
bz2
The bz2 module is used to read and write data compressed according to the bzip2 compression algorithm. ...
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