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.