OS Filesystem

Manage the filesystem provided by your OS.

In essence, an OSFS is a thin layer over the io and os modules of the Python standard library.

class fs.osfs.OSFS(root_path, create=False, create_mode=511)[source]

Create an OSFS.

Parameters:
  • root_path (str or PathLike) – An OS path or path-like object to the location on your HD you wish to manage.
  • create (bool) – Set to True to create the root directory if it does not already exist, otherwise the directory should exist prior to creating the OSFS instance (defaults to False).
  • create_mode (int) – The permissions that will be used to create the directory if create is True and the path doesn’t exist, defaults to 0o777.
Raises:

fs.errors.CreateFailed – If root_path does not exist, or could not be created.

Examples

>>> current_directory_fs = OSFS('.')
>>> home_fs = OSFS('~/')
>>> windows_system32_fs = OSFS('c://system32')