Python OS Module Tutorial and Examples

To interact with the file system or to deal with filenames, paths, directories we use python os module.

in this blog post i will show you some of the important functions in python os module.

os.getcwd()

this module is used get or print the current working directory.

import os
x=os.getcwd()
print(x)

This will print the current working directory, Where this python script file located.

this function is used to change the current working directory.

this module is used to create a new directory

import os
os.mkdir("devops")

this will create a directory called devops

this module is used to list all files and directories names in a particular directory

import os
x=os.listdir()
print(x)

this will list or print all the files and directory names in a current directory.

import os
x=os.listdir(r"C:\Users\devops\Desktop\pycharm")
print(x)

this will print all the files and directory names in a "C:\Users\devops\Desktop\pycharm" directory.

os.rename() is used to rename a file or directory name.

import os 
os.rename("asf.txt","devops.txt")

this will rename asf.txt into devops.txt

import os 
os.rename("devops","python")

this will rename a directory called devops into python.

so using this module we can rename a file to another file name and we can rename a directory into another directory.

this module is used to delete a directory.

import os
os.rmdir("devops")

this will remove a directory called devops.