uos – Filesystem functions

This module contains miscellaneous operating system functions.

Warning

All filesystem operations accept absolute paths only and will raise a ValueError when passed an invalid path.

Functions

uos.listdir(path)

Obtain a list of names or the entries in the provided directory.

If the path is provided in type bytes, the filenames returned are also of type bytes; otherwise they are of type str.

Note

The list is in an arbitrary order and does not include special entries such as . and .., even if they are present in the directory. If a file is removed from or added to the directory during this function call, its appearance or otherwise is undetermined.

Parameters

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

Returns

List containing the names of the entries in the directory.

Return type

str or bytes

uos.mkdir(path, mode=None)

Create a directory.

Parameters

• path (str) – Full path to the new directory.

• mode (optional) – This parameter is ignored and is only present to ensure compatibility.

Raises

FileExistsError – Directory already exists.

uos.remove(path)

Remove (delete) a file.

Parameters

path (str) – Full path to the file.

Raises

• IsADirectoryError – The provided path is a directory rather than a file. Use rmdir() to remove directories.

• FileNotFoundError – File does not exist.

uos.rmdir(path)

Remove (delete) a directory.

Parameters

path (str) – Full path to the directory.

Raises

• FileNotFoundError – The directory does not exist.

• OSError – Directory is not empty.