July 2006
Beginner to intermediate
734 pages
20h 6m
English
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The os Module
The os module is an umbrella module that presents a reasonably uniform cross-platform view of the different capabilities of various operating systems. The module provides ways to create and handle files and directories, and to create, manage, and destroy processes. This section covers the filesystem-related capabilities of the os module; Running Other Programs with the os Module covers the process-related capabilities.
The os module supplies a name attribute, which is a string that identifies the kind of platform on which Python is being run. Common values for name are 'posix' (all kinds of Unix-like platforms, including Mac OS X), 'nt' (all kinds of 32-bit Windows platforms), 'mac' (old Mac systems), and 'java' (Jython). You can often exploit unique capabilities of a platform, at least in part, through functions supplied by os. However, this book deals with cross-platform programming, not with platform-specific functionality, so I do not cover parts of os that exist only on one kind of platform, nor do I cover platform-specific modules. All functionality covered in this book is available at least on both 'posix' and 'nt' platforms. However, I do cover any differences among the ways in which a given functionality is provided on different platforms.
OSError Exceptions
When a request to the operating system fails, os raises an exception, which is an instance of OSError. os also exposes built-in exception class OSError with the name os.error. Instances of OSError expose ...
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