OS Filesystem¶
Manage the filesystem provided by your OS.
In essence an OSFS
is a thin layer over the io
and os
modules in the Python library.
-
class
fs.osfs.
OSFS
(root_path, create=False, create_mode=511)¶ Create an OSFS.
Parameters: - root_path (str or path-like) – 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 theOSFS
instance. - create_mode (int) – The permissions that will be used to create
the directory if
create
is True and the path doesn’t exist, defaults to0o777
.
Raises: fs.errors.CreateFailed – If
root_path
does not exists, or could not be created.Here are some examples of creating
OSFS
objects:current_directory_fs = OSFS('.') home_fs = OSFS('~/') windows_system32_fs = OSFS('c://system32')