Filenames & Path

Type of path

• Absolute path

'/Users/username/Documents/io.ppt'

• Relative path

'..'
'./'

• Relative to Absolute

import os
os.path.abspath("..")
os.path.realpath("..")

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Common Operations

• list files and folders in current path

os.listdir('.') # './' works as well

• check one thing exists or not

os.path.exists('.')

• check one thing is a file or a folder

os.path.isdir('.')
os.path.isfile('.')

• join path conveniently

os.path.join('.','words.txt')
'.' + '/' + 'words.txt' # load the system seperator automatically