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By Al Lukaszewski, About.com Guide to Python

More File Handling With Python's os Module

Monday May 12, 2008
Knowing how to use file descriptors, one can use the os functions to do some substantial system-level tasks. For a brief overview of many of the other file-handling functions in os, see "More File Handling Calls", the last step in using os to handle files in Python. They all tend to take a file descriptor as an argument, so ensure that you are familiar with the rest of the series before you try your hand at one of these.

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