uos.path – Filesystem functions

This module contains miscellaneous functions on filesystem paths.

Functions

uos.path.isfile(path)

Check if a path to a file is an existing regular file.

Parameters

path (str) – Full path to the file.

Returns

True if the path is an existing regular file.

Return type

bool

uos.path.isdir(path)

Check if a path to a directory is an existing directory.

Parameters

path (str) – Full path to the directory.

Returns

True if the path is an existing directory.

Return type

bool

uos.path.exists(path)

Check if a path is an existing file or directory.

Parameters

path (str) – Full path to the file or directory.

Returns

True if the path references an existing file or directory.

Return type

bool

Note

This function may return False if permission is not granted to execute os.stat() on the requested file, even if the path exists.