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<H1><A NAME="SECTION008200000000000000000">
6.2 <tt class="module">os.path</tt> --
         Common pathname manipulations</A>
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<A NAME="module-os.path"></A>
<P>

<P>
This module implements some useful functions on pathnames.
<a id='l2h-1765' xml:id='l2h-1765'></a>

<P>
<span class="warning"><b class="label">Warning:</b>
On Windows, many of these functions do not properly
support UNC pathnames.  <tt class="function">splitunc()</tt> and <tt class="function">ismount()</tt>
do handle them correctly.</span>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1735' xml:id='l2h-1735' class="function">abspath</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return a normalized absolutized version of the pathname <var>path</var>.
On most platforms, this is equivalent to
<code>normpath(join(os.getcwd(), <var>path</var>))</code>.

<span class="versionnote">New in version 1.5.2.</span>

</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1736' xml:id='l2h-1736' class="function">basename</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return the base name of pathname <var>path</var>.  This is the second half
of the pair returned by <code>split(<var>path</var>)</code>.  Note that the
result of this function is different from the
<span class="Unix">Unix</span> <b class="program">basename</b> program; where <b class="program">basename</b> for
<code>'/foo/bar/'</code> returns <code>'bar'</code>, the <tt class="function">basename()</tt>
function returns an empty string (<code>''</code>).
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1737' xml:id='l2h-1737' class="function">commonprefix</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>list</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return the longest path prefix (taken character-by-character) that is a
prefix of all paths in 
<var>list</var>.  If <var>list</var> is empty, return the empty string
(<code>''</code>).  Note that this may return invalid paths because it works a
character at a time.
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1738' xml:id='l2h-1738' class="function">dirname</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return the directory name of pathname <var>path</var>.  This is the first
half of the pair returned by <code>split(<var>path</var>)</code>.
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1739' xml:id='l2h-1739' class="function">exists</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return <code>True</code> if <var>path</var> refers to an existing path.
Returns <code>False</code> for broken symbolic links.
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1740' xml:id='l2h-1740' class="function">lexists</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return <code>True</code> if <var>path</var> refers to an existing path.
Returns <code>True</code> for broken symbolic links.  
Equivalent to <tt class="function">exists()</tt> on platforms lacking
<tt class="function">os.lstat()</tt>.

<span class="versionnote">New in version 2.4.</span>

</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1741' xml:id='l2h-1741' class="function">expanduser</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
On <span class="Unix">Unix</span>, return the argument with an initial component of "<tt class="samp">~</tt>" or
"<tt class="samp">~<var>user</var></tt>" replaced by that <var>user</var>'s home directory.
An initial "<tt class="samp">~</tt>" is replaced by the environment variable
<a class="envvar" id='l2h-1766' xml:id='l2h-1766'>HOME</a> if it is set; otherwise the current user's home directory
is looked up in the password directory through the built-in module
<tt class="module"><a href="module-pwd.html">pwd</a></tt><a id='l2h-1767' xml:id='l2h-1767'></a>.
An initial "<tt class="samp">~<var>user</var></tt>" is looked up directly in the
password directory.

<P>
On Windows, only "<tt class="samp">~</tt>" is supported; it is replaced by the
environment variable <a class="envvar" id='l2h-1768' xml:id='l2h-1768'>HOME</a> or by a combination of
<a class="envvar" id='l2h-1769' xml:id='l2h-1769'>HOMEDRIVE</a> and <a class="envvar" id='l2h-1770' xml:id='l2h-1770'>HOMEPATH</a>.

<P>
If the expansion fails or if the
path does not begin with a tilde, the path is returned unchanged.
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1742' xml:id='l2h-1742' class="function">expandvars</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return the argument with environment variables expanded.  Substrings
of the form "<tt class="samp">$<var>name</var></tt>" or "<tt class="samp">${<var>name</var>}</tt>" are
replaced by the value of environment variable <var>name</var>.  Malformed
variable names and references to non-existing variables are left
unchanged.
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1743' xml:id='l2h-1743' class="function">getatime</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return the time of last access of <var>path</var>.  The return
value is a number giving the number of seconds since the epoch (see the 
<tt class="module"><a href="module-time.html">time</a></tt> module).  Raise <tt class="exception">os.error</tt> if the file does
not exist or is inaccessible.

<span class="versionnote">New in version 1.5.2.</span>

<span class="versionnote">Changed in version 2.3:
If <tt class="function">os.stat_float_times()</tt> returns True, the result is a floating point number.</span>

</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1744' xml:id='l2h-1744' class="function">getmtime</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return the time of last modification of <var>path</var>.  The return
value is a number giving the number of seconds since the epoch (see the 
<tt class="module"><a href="module-time.html">time</a></tt> module).  Raise <tt class="exception">os.error</tt> if the file does
not exist or is inaccessible.

<span class="versionnote">New in version 1.5.2.</span>

<span class="versionnote">Changed in version 2.3:
If <tt class="function">os.stat_float_times()</tt> returns True, the result is a floating point number.</span>

</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1745' xml:id='l2h-1745' class="function">getctime</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return the system's ctime which, on some systems (like <span class="Unix">Unix</span>) is the
time of the last change, and, on others (like Windows), is the
creation time for <var>path</var>.  The return
value is a number giving the number of seconds since the epoch (see the 
<tt class="module"><a href="module-time.html">time</a></tt> module).  Raise <tt class="exception">os.error</tt> if the file does
not exist or is inaccessible.

<span class="versionnote">New in version 2.3.</span>

</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1746' xml:id='l2h-1746' class="function">getsize</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return the size, in bytes, of <var>path</var>.  Raise
<tt class="exception">os.error</tt> if the file does not exist or is inaccessible.

<span class="versionnote">New in version 1.5.2.</span>

</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1747' xml:id='l2h-1747' class="function">isabs</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return <code>True</code> if <var>path</var> is an absolute pathname (begins with a
slash).
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1748' xml:id='l2h-1748' class="function">isfile</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return <code>True</code> if <var>path</var> is an existing regular file.  This follows
symbolic links, so both <tt class="function">islink()</tt> and <tt class="function">isfile()</tt>
can be true for the same path.
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1749' xml:id='l2h-1749' class="function">isdir</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return <code>True</code> if <var>path</var> is an existing directory.  This follows
symbolic links, so both <tt class="function">islink()</tt> and <tt class="function">isdir()</tt> can
be true for the same path.
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1750' xml:id='l2h-1750' class="function">islink</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return <code>True</code> if <var>path</var> refers to a directory entry that is a
symbolic link.  Always <code>False</code> if symbolic links are not supported.
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1751' xml:id='l2h-1751' class="function">ismount</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return <code>True</code> if pathname <var>path</var> is a <i class="dfn">mount point</i>: a point in
a file system where a different file system has been mounted.  The
function checks whether <var>path</var>'s parent, <span class="file"><var>path</var>/..</span>, is
on a different device than <var>path</var>, or whether <span class="file"><var>path</var>/..</span>
and <var>path</var> point to the same i-node on the same device -- this
should detect mount points for all <span class="Unix">Unix</span> and POSIX variants.
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1752' xml:id='l2h-1752' class="function">join</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path1</var><big>[</big><var>, path2</var><big>[</big><var>, ...</var><big>]</big><var></var><big>]</big><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Joins one or more path components intelligently.  If any component is
an absolute path, all previous components are thrown away, and joining
continues.  The return value is the concatenation of <var>path1</var>, and
optionally <var>path2</var>, etc., with exactly one directory separator
(<code>os.sep</code>) inserted between components, unless <var>path2</var> is
empty.  Note that on Windows, since there is a current directory for
each drive, <tt class="function">os.path.join("c:", "foo")</tt> represents a path
relative to the current directory on drive <span class="file">C:</span> (<span class="file">c:foo</span>), not
<span class="file">c:&#92;&#92;foo</span>.
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1753' xml:id='l2h-1753' class="function">normcase</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Normalize the case of a pathname.  On <span class="Unix">Unix</span>, this returns the path
unchanged; on case-insensitive filesystems, it converts the path to
lowercase.  On Windows, it also converts forward slashes to backward
slashes.
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1754' xml:id='l2h-1754' class="function">normpath</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Normalize a pathname.  This collapses redundant separators and
up-level references so that <code>A//B</code>, <code>A/./B</code> and
<code>A/foo/../B</code> all become <code>A/B</code>.  It does not normalize the
case (use <tt class="function">normcase()</tt> for that).  On Windows, it converts
forward slashes to backward slashes. It should be understood that this may
change the meaning of the path if it contains symbolic links! 
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1755' xml:id='l2h-1755' class="function">realpath</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return the canonical path of the specified filename, eliminating any
symbolic links encountered in the path.
Availability:  <span class="Unix">Unix</span>.

<span class="versionnote">New in version 2.2.</span>

</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1756' xml:id='l2h-1756' class="function">samefile</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path1, path2</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return <code>True</code> if both pathname arguments refer to the same file or
directory (as indicated by device number and i-node number).
Raise an exception if a <tt class="function">os.stat()</tt> call on either pathname
fails.
Availability:  Macintosh, <span class="Unix">Unix</span>.
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1757' xml:id='l2h-1757' class="function">sameopenfile</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>fp1, fp2</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return <code>True</code> if the file objects <var>fp1</var> and <var>fp2</var> refer to the
same file.  The two file objects may represent different file
descriptors.
Availability:  Macintosh, <span class="Unix">Unix</span>.
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1758' xml:id='l2h-1758' class="function">samestat</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>stat1, stat2</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return <code>True</code> if the stat tuples <var>stat1</var> and <var>stat2</var> refer to
the same file.  These structures may have been returned by
<tt class="function">fstat()</tt>, <tt class="function">lstat()</tt>, or <tt class="function">stat()</tt>.  This
function implements the underlying comparison used by
<tt class="function">samefile()</tt> and <tt class="function">sameopenfile()</tt>.
Availability:  Macintosh, <span class="Unix">Unix</span>.
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1759' xml:id='l2h-1759' class="function">split</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Split the pathname <var>path</var> into a pair, <code>(<var>head</var>,
<var>tail</var>)</code> where <var>tail</var> is the last pathname component and
<var>head</var> is everything leading up to that.  The <var>tail</var> part will
never contain a slash; if <var>path</var> ends in a slash, <var>tail</var> will
be empty.  If there is no slash in <var>path</var>, <var>head</var> will be
empty.  If <var>path</var> is empty, both <var>head</var> and <var>tail</var> are
empty.  Trailing slashes are stripped from <var>head</var> unless it is the
root (one or more slashes only).  In nearly all cases,
<code>join(<var>head</var>, <var>tail</var>)</code> equals <var>path</var> (the only
exception being when there were multiple slashes separating <var>head</var>
from <var>tail</var>).
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1760' xml:id='l2h-1760' class="function">splitdrive</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Split the pathname <var>path</var> into a pair <code>(<var>drive</var>,
<var>tail</var>)</code> where <var>drive</var> is either a drive specification or the
empty string.  On systems which do not use drive specifications,
<var>drive</var> will always be the empty string.  In all cases,
<code><var>drive</var> + <var>tail</var></code> will be the same as <var>path</var>.

<span class="versionnote">New in version 1.3.</span>

</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1761' xml:id='l2h-1761' class="function">splitext</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Split the pathname <var>path</var> into a pair <code>(<var>root</var>, <var>ext</var>)</code> 
such that <code><var>root</var> + <var>ext</var> == <var>path</var></code>,
and <var>ext</var> is empty or begins with a period and contains
at most one period.
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1762' xml:id='l2h-1762' class="function">splitunc</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Split the pathname <var>path</var> into a pair <code>(<var>unc</var>, <var>rest</var>)</code>
so that <var>unc</var> is the UNC mount point (such as <code>r'&#92;&#92;host&#92;mount'</code>),
if present, and <var>rest</var> the rest of the path (such as 
<code>r'&#92;path&#92;file.ext'</code>).  For paths containing drive letters, <var>unc</var>
will always be the empty string.
Availability:  Windows.
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1763' xml:id='l2h-1763' class="function">walk</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>path, visit, arg</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Calls the function <var>visit</var> with arguments
<code>(<var>arg</var>, <var>dirname</var>, <var>names</var>)</code> for each directory in the
directory tree rooted at <var>path</var> (including <var>path</var> itself, if it
is a directory).  The argument <var>dirname</var> specifies the visited
directory, the argument <var>names</var> lists the files in the directory
(gotten from <code>os.listdir(<var>dirname</var>)</code>).
The <var>visit</var> function may modify <var>names</var> to
influence the set of directories visited below <var>dirname</var>, e.g. to
avoid visiting certain parts of the tree.  (The object referred to by
<var>names</var> must be modified in place, using <tt class="keyword">del</tt> or slice
assignment.)

<P>
<div class="note"><b class="label">Note:</b>
Symbolic links to directories are not treated as subdirectories, and
that <tt class="function">walk()</tt> therefore will not visit them. To visit linked
directories you must identify them with
<code>os.path.islink(<var>file</var>)</code> and
<code>os.path.isdir(<var>file</var>)</code>, and invoke <tt class="function">walk()</tt> as
necessary.
</div>

<P>
<span class="note"><b class="label">Note:</b>
The newer <tt class="function"><tt class="module"><a href="module-os.html">os</a></tt>.walk()</tt> generator supplies
      similar functionality and can be easier to use.</span>
</dl>

<P>
<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-1764' xml:id='l2h-1764'>supports_unicode_filenames</tt></b></dt>
<dd>
True if arbitrary Unicode strings can be used as file names (within
limitations imposed by the file system), and if
<tt class="function">os.listdir()</tt> returns Unicode strings for a Unicode
argument.

<span class="versionnote">New in version 2.3.</span>

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