os.path --- Common pathname manipulations

源代码: Lib/posixpath.py (用于 POSIX)和 Lib/ntpath.py (用于 Windows NT)


This module implements some useful functions on pathnames. To read or write files see open(), and for accessing the filesystem see the os module. The path parameters can be passed as either strings, or bytes. Applications are encouraged to represent file names as (Unicode) character strings. Unfortunately, some file names may not be representable as strings on Unix, so applications that need to support arbitrary file names on Unix should use bytes objects to represent path names. Vice versa, using bytes objects cannot represent all file names on Windows (in the standard mbcs encoding), hence Windows applications should use string objects to access all files.

Unlike a unix shell, Python does not do any automatic path expansions. Functions such as expanduser() and expandvars() can be invoked explicitly when an application desires shell-like path expansion. (See also the glob module.)

也參考

The pathlib module offers high-level path objects.

備註

All of these functions accept either only bytes or only string objects as their parameters. The result is an object of the same type, if a path or file name is returned.

備註

Since different operating systems have different path name conventions, there are several versions of this module in the standard library. The os.path module is always the path module suitable for the operating system Python is running on, and therefore usable for local paths. However, you can also import and use the individual modules if you want to manipulate a path that is always in one of the different formats. They all have the same interface:

  • posixpath for UNIX-style paths

  • ntpath for Windows paths

3.8 版更變: exists()lexists()isdir()isfile()islink()ismount() 现在遇到系统层面上不可表示的字符或字节的路径时,会返回 False,而不是抛出异常。

os.path.abspath(path)

Return a normalized absolutized version of the pathname path. On most platforms, this is equivalent to calling the function normpath() as follows: normpath(join(os.getcwd(), path)).

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.basename(path)

Return the base name of pathname path. This is the second element of the pair returned by passing path to the function split(). Note that the result of this function is different from the Unix basename program; where basename for '/foo/bar/' returns 'bar', the basename() function returns an empty string ('').

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.commonpath(paths)

接受包含多个路径的序列 paths,返回 paths 的最长公共子路径。如果 paths 同时包含绝对路径和相对路径,或 paths 在不同的驱动器上,或 paths 为空,则抛出 ValueError 异常。与 commonprefix() 不同,本方法返回有效路径。

可用性: Unix, Windows。

3.5 版新加入.

3.6 版更變: Accepts a sequence of path-like objects.

os.path.commonprefix(list)

Return the longest path prefix (taken character-by-character) that is a prefix of all paths in list. If list is empty, return the empty string ('').

備註

This function may return invalid paths because it works a character at a time. To obtain a valid path, see commonpath().

>>> os.path.commonprefix(['/usr/lib', '/usr/local/lib'])
'/usr/l'

>>> os.path.commonpath(['/usr/lib', '/usr/local/lib'])
'/usr'

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.dirname(path)

Return the directory name of pathname path. This is the first element of the pair returned by passing path to the function split().

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.exists(path)

Return True if path refers to an existing path or an open file descriptor. Returns False for broken symbolic links. On some platforms, this function may return False if permission is not granted to execute os.stat() on the requested file, even if the path physically exists.

3.3 版更變: path can now be an integer: True is returned if it is an open file descriptor, False otherwise.

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.lexists(path)

Return True if path refers to an existing path. Returns True for broken symbolic links. Equivalent to exists() on platforms lacking os.lstat().

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.expanduser(path)

On Unix and Windows, return the argument with an initial component of ~ or ~user replaced by that user's home directory.

On Unix, an initial ~ is replaced by the environment variable HOME if it is set; otherwise the current user's home directory is looked up in the password directory through the built-in module pwd. An initial ~user is looked up directly in the password directory.

在 Windows 上,如果设置了 USERPROFILE,就使用这个变量,否则会将 HOMEPATHHOMEDRIVE 结合在一起使用。以 ~user 开头则将上述方法生成路径的最后一截目录替换成 user。

If the expansion fails or if the path does not begin with a tilde, the path is returned unchanged.

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

3.8 版更變: Windows 不再使用 HOME

os.path.expandvars(path)

Return the argument with environment variables expanded. Substrings of the form $name or ${name} are replaced by the value of environment variable name. Malformed variable names and references to non-existing variables are left unchanged.

On Windows, %name% expansions are supported in addition to $name and ${name}.

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.getatime(path)

Return the time of last access of path. The return value is a floating point number giving the number of seconds since the epoch (see the time module). Raise OSError if the file does not exist or is inaccessible.

os.path.getmtime(path)

Return the time of last modification of path. The return value is a floating point number giving the number of seconds since the epoch (see the time module). Raise OSError if the file does not exist or is inaccessible.

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.getctime(path)

Return the system's ctime which, on some systems (like Unix) is the time of the last metadata change, and, on others (like Windows), is the creation time for path. The return value is a number giving the number of seconds since the epoch (see the time module). Raise OSError if the file does not exist or is inaccessible.

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.getsize(path)

Return the size, in bytes, of path. Raise OSError if the file does not exist or is inaccessible.

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.isabs(path)

Return True if path is an absolute pathname. On Unix, that means it begins with a slash, on Windows that it begins with a (back)slash after chopping off a potential drive letter.

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.isfile(path)

Return True if path is an existing regular file. This follows symbolic links, so both islink() and isfile() can be true for the same path.

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.isdir(path)

Return True if path is an existing directory. This follows symbolic links, so both islink() and isdir() can be true for the same path.

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

Return True if path refers to an existing directory entry that is a symbolic link. Always False if symbolic links are not supported by the Python runtime.

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.ismount(path)

如果路径 path挂载点`(文件系统中挂载其他文件系统的点),则返回 ``True`。在 POSIX 上,该函数检查 path 的父目录 path/.. 是否在与 path 不同的设备上,或者 path/..path 是否指向同一设备上的同一 inode(这一检测挂载点的方法适用于所有 Unix 和 POSIX 变体)。本方法不能可靠地检测同一文件系统上的绑定挂载 (bind mount)。在 Windows 上,盘符和共享 UNC 始终是挂载点,对于任何其他路径,将调用 GetVolumePathName 来查看它是否与输入的路径不同。

3.4 版新加入: Support for detecting non-root mount points on Windows.

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.join(path, *paths)

Join one or more path components intelligently. The return value is the concatenation of path and any members of *paths with exactly one directory separator (os.sep) following each non-empty part except the last, meaning that the result will only end in a separator if the last part is empty. If a component is an absolute path, all previous components are thrown away and joining continues from the absolute path component.

On Windows, the drive letter is not reset when an absolute path component (e.g., r'\foo') is encountered. If a component contains a drive letter, all previous components are thrown away and the drive letter is reset. Note that since there is a current directory for each drive, os.path.join("c:", "foo") represents a path relative to the current directory on drive C: (c:foo), not c:\foo.

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object for path and paths.

os.path.normcase(path)

规范路径的大小写。在 Windows 上,将路径中的所有字符都转换为小写,并将正斜杠转换为反斜杠。在其他操作系统上返回原路径。

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.normpath(path)

Normalize a pathname by collapsing redundant separators and up-level references so that A//B, A/B/, A/./B and A/foo/../B all become A/B. This string manipulation may change the meaning of a path that contains symbolic links. On Windows, it converts forward slashes to backward slashes. To normalize case, use normcase().

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.realpath(path)

Return the canonical path of the specified filename, eliminating any symbolic links encountered in the path (if they are supported by the operating system).

備註

当发生符号链接循环时,返回的路径将是该循环的某个组成部分,但不能保证是哪个部分。

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

3.8 版更變: 在 Windows 上现在可以正确解析符号链接和交接点 (junction point)。

os.path.relpath(path, start=os.curdir)

Return a relative filepath to path either from the current directory or from an optional start directory. This is a path computation: the filesystem is not accessed to confirm the existence or nature of path or start.

start defaults to os.curdir.

可用性: Unix, Windows。

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.samefile(path1, path2)

Return True if both pathname arguments refer to the same file or directory. This is determined by the device number and i-node number and raises an exception if an os.stat() call on either pathname fails.

可用性: Unix, Windows。

3.2 版更變: Added Windows support.

3.4 版更變: Windows now uses the same implementation as all other platforms.

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.sameopenfile(fp1, fp2)

Return True if the file descriptors fp1 and fp2 refer to the same file.

可用性: Unix, Windows。

3.2 版更變: Added Windows support.

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.samestat(stat1, stat2)

Return True if the stat tuples stat1 and stat2 refer to the same file. These structures may have been returned by os.fstat(), os.lstat(), or os.stat(). This function implements the underlying comparison used by samefile() and sameopenfile().

可用性: Unix, Windows。

3.4 版更變: Added Windows support.

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.split(path)

Split the pathname path into a pair, (head, tail) where tail is the last pathname component and head is everything leading up to that. The tail part will never contain a slash; if path ends in a slash, tail will be empty. If there is no slash in path, head will be empty. If path is empty, both head and tail are empty. Trailing slashes are stripped from head unless it is the root (one or more slashes only). In all cases, join(head, tail) returns a path to the same location as path (but the strings may differ). Also see the functions dirname() and basename().

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.splitdrive(path)

Split the pathname path into a pair (drive, tail) where drive is either a mount point or the empty string. On systems which do not use drive specifications, drive will always be the empty string. In all cases, drive + tail will be the same as path.

On Windows, splits a pathname into drive/UNC sharepoint and relative path.

If the path contains a drive letter, drive will contain everything up to and including the colon. e.g. splitdrive("c:/dir") returns ("c:", "/dir")

If the path contains a UNC path, drive will contain the host name and share, up to but not including the fourth separator. e.g. splitdrive("//host/computer/dir") returns ("//host/computer", "/dir")

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.splitext(path)

Split the pathname path into a pair (root, ext) such that root + ext == path, and ext is empty or begins with a period and contains at most one period. Leading periods on the basename are ignored; splitext('.cshrc') returns ('.cshrc', '').

3.6 版更變: Accepts a path-like object.

os.path.supports_unicode_filenames

True if arbitrary Unicode strings can be used as file names (within limitations imposed by the file system).