os --- 操作系统接口模块

源代码： Lib/os.py

该模块提供了一些方便使用操作系统相关功能的函数。 如果你是想读写一个文件，请参阅 open()，如果你想操作路径，请参阅 os.path 模块，如果你想在命令行上读取所有文件中的所有行请参阅 fileinput 模块。 有关创建临时文件和目录的方法，请参阅 tempfile 模块，对于高级文件目录处理，请参阅 shutil 模块。

关于这些函数的可用性的说明：

  • 所有 Python 内建的操作系统相关的模块的设计都是为了使得在同一功能可用的情况下，保持接口的一致性；例如，函数 os.stat(path) 以相同的格式返回关于 path 的统计信息（这个函数同时也是起源于 POSIX 接口）。
  • 针对特定的操作的拓展同样在可用于 os 模块，但是使用它们必然会对可移植性产生威胁。
  • 所有接受路径或文件名的函数都同时支持字节串和字符串对象，并在返回路径或文件名时使用相应类型的对象作为结果。

注解

此模块的所有函数在遇到不可用或不可访问的文件名或路径，以及其他类型正确，但不被操作系统接受的参数时，会引发 OSError 异常。

exception os.error

内建的 OSError 异常的一个别名。

os.name

导入的依赖特定操作系统的模块的名称。以下名称目前已注册: 'posix', 'nt', 'java'.

参见

sys.platform 有更详细的描述. os.uname() 只给出系统提供的版本信息。

platform 模块对系统的标识有更详细的检查。

文件名，命令行参数，以及环境变量。

在 Python 中，使用字符串类型表示文件名、命令行参数和环境变量。 在某些系统上，在将这些字符串传递给操作系统之前，必须将这些字符串解码为字节。 Python 使用文件系统编码来执行此转换（请参阅 sys.getfilesystemencoding() ）。

在 3.1 版更改: 在某些系统上，使用文件系统编码进行转换可能会失败。 在这种情况下，Python 会使用 代理转义编码错误处理器，这意味着在解码时，不可解码的字节被 Unicode 字符 U+DCxx 替换，并且这些字节在编码时再次转换为原始字节。

文件系统编码必须保证成功解码小于 128 的所有字节。如果文件系统编码无法提供此保证， API 函数可能会引发 UnicodeErrors 。

进程参数

这些函数和数据项提供了操作当前进程和用户的信息。

os.ctermid()

返回与进程控制终端对应的文件名。

可用性: Unix。

os.environ

一个表示字符串环境的 mapping 对象。 例如，environ['HOME'] 是你的主目录（在某些平台上）的路径名，相当于 C 中的 getenv("HOME")。

这个映射是在第一次导入 os 模块时捕获的，通常作为 Python 启动时处理 site.py 的一部分。除了通过直接修改 os.environ 之外，在此之后对环境所做的更改不会反映在 os.environ 中。

如果平台支持 putenv() 函数，这个映射除了可以用于查询环境外还能用于修改环境。 当这个映射被修改时，putenv() 将被自动调用。

在Unix系统上，键和值会使用 sys.getfilesystemencoding() 和 'surrogateescape' 的错误处理。如果你想使用其他的编码，使用 environb。

注解

直接调用 putenv() 并不会影响 os.environ，所以推荐直接修改``os.environ``。

注解

在某些平台上，包括 FreeBSD 和 Mac OS X，设置 environ 可能导致内存泄露。参阅 putenv() 的系统文档。

如果平台没有提供 putenv(), 为了使启动的子进程使用修改后的环境，一份修改后的映射会被传给合适的进程创建函数。

如果平台支持 unsetenv() 函数，你可以通过删除映射中元素的方式来删除对应的环境变量。当一个元素被从 os.environ 删除时，以及 pop() 或 clear() 被调用时， unsetenv() 会被自动调用。

os.environb

字节版本的 environ: 一个以字节串表示环境的 mapping 对象。 environ 和 environb 是同步的（修改 environb 会更新 environ，反之亦然）。

只有在 supports_bytes_environ 为 True 的时候 environb 才是可用的。

3.2 新版功能.

os.chdir(path)
os.fchdir(fd)
os.getcwd()

以上函数请参阅 Files and Directories 。

os.fsencode(filename)

编码 路径类 文件名 为文件系统接受的形式，使用 'surrogateescape' 代理转义编码错误处理器，在Windows系统上会使用 'strict' ；返回 bytes 字节类型不变。

fsdecode() 是此函数的逆向函数。

3.2 新版功能.

在 3.6 版更改: 增加对实现了 os.PathLike 接口的对象的支持。

os.fsdecode(filename)

从文件系统编码方式解码为 路径类 文件名，使用 'surrogateescape' 代理转义编码错误处理器，在Windows系统上会使用 'strict' ；返回 str 字符串不变。

fsencode() 是此函数的逆向函数。

3.2 新版功能.

在 3.6 版更改: 增加对实现了 os.PathLike 接口的对象的支持。

os.fspath(path)

返回路径的文件系统表示。

如果传入的是 str 或 bytes 类型的字符串，将原样返回。否则 __fspath__() 将被调用，如果得到的是一个 str 或 bytes 类型的对象，那就返回这个值。其他所有情况则会抛出 TypeError  异常。

3.6 新版功能.

class os.PathLike

描述表示一个文件系统路径的 abstract base class ，如 pathlib.PurePath 。

3.6 新版功能.

abstractmethod __fspath__()

返回当前对象的文件系统表示。

这个方法只应该返回一个 str 字符串或 bytes 字节串，请优先选择 str 字符串。

os.getenv(key, default=None)

如果存在，返回环境变量 key 的值，否则返回 default。 key ， default 和返回值均为 str 字符串类型。

在Unix系统上，键和值会使用 sys.getfilesystemencoding() 和``'surrogateescape'`` 错误处理进行解码。如果你想使用其他的编码，使用 os.getenvb()。

可用性: 大部分的Unix系统，Windows。

os.getenvb(key, default=None)

如果存在环境变量 key 那么返回其值，否则返回 default。 key ， default 和返回值均为bytes字节串类型。

getenvb() 仅在 supports_bytes_environ 为 True 时可用

可用性: 大部分的Unix系统。

3.2 新版功能.

os.get_exec_path(env=None)

返回将用于搜索可执行文件的目录列表，与在外壳程序中启动一个进程时相似。指定的 env 应为用于搜索 PATH 的环境变量字典。默认情况下，当 env 为 None 时，将会使用 environ 。

3.2 新版功能.

os.getegid()

返回当前进程的有效组ID。对应当前进程执行文件的 "set id" 位。

可用性: Unix。

os.geteuid()

返回当前进程的有效用户ID。

可用性: Unix。

os.getgid()

返回当前进程的实际组ID。

可用性: Unix。

os.getgrouplist(user, group)

返回该用户所在的组 ID 列表。可能 group 参数没有在返回的列表中，实际上用户应该也是属于该 group。group 参数一般可以从储存账户信息的密码记录文件中找到。

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.getgroups()

返回当前进程对应的组ID列表

可用性: Unix。

注解

在Mac OS X系统中，getgroups() 会和其他 Unix 平台有些不同。如果 Python 解释器是在 10.5 或更早版本中部署，getgroups() 返回当前用户进程相关的有效组ID列表。 该列表长度由于系统预设的接口限制，最长为 16。 而且在适当的权限下，返回结果还会因 getgroups() 而发生变化；如果 Python 解释器是在 10.5 以上版本中部署，getgroups() 返回进程所属有效用户 ID 所对应的用户的组 ID 列表，组用户列表可能因为进程的生存周期而发生变动，而且也不会因为 setgroups() 的调用而发生，返回的组用户列表长度也没有长度 16 的限制。在部署中，Python 解释器用到的变量 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET 可以用 sysconfig.get_config_var()。

os.getlogin()

返回通过控制终端进程进行登录的用户名。在多数情况下，使用 getpass.getuser() 会更有效，因为后者会通过检查环境变量 LOGNAME 或 USERNAME 来查找用户，再由 pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0] 来获取当前用户 ID 的登录名。

可用性: Unix, Windows。

os.getpgid(pid)

根据进程id pid 返回进程的组 ID 列表。如果 pid 为 0，则返回当前进程的进程组 ID 列表

可用性: Unix。

os.getpgrp()

返回当时进程组的ID

可用性: Unix。

os.getpid()

返回当前进程ID

os.getppid()

返回父进程ID。当父进程已经结束，在Unix中返回的ID是初始进程(1)中的一个，在Windows中仍然是同一个进程ID，该进程ID有可能已经被进行进程所占用。

可用性: Unix, Windows。

在 3.2 版更改: 添加WIndows的支持。

os.getpriority(which, who)

获取程序调度优先级。which 参数值可以是 PRIO_PROCESS，PRIO_PGRP，或 PRIO_USER 中的一个，who 是相对于 which (PRIO_PROCESS 的进程标识符，PRIO_PGRP 的进程组标识符和 PRIO_USER 的用户ID)。当 who 为 0 时（分别）表示调用的进程，调用进程的进程组或调用进程所属的真实用户 ID。

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.PRIO_PROCESS
os.PRIO_PGRP
os.PRIO_USER

函数 getpriority() 和 setpriority() 的参数。

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.getresuid()

返回一个由 (ruid, euid, suid) 所组成的元组，分别表示当前进程的真实用户ID，有效用户ID和甲暂存用户ID。

可用性: Unix。

3.2 新版功能.

os.getresgid()

返回一个由 (rgid, egid, sgid) 所组成的元组，分别表示当前进程的真实组ID，有效组ID和暂存组ID。

可用性: Unix。

3.2 新版功能.

os.getuid()

返回当前进程的真实用户ID。

可用性: Unix。

os.initgroups(username, gid)

调用系统 initgroups()，使用指定用户所在的所有值来初始化组访问列表，包括指定的组ID。

可用性: Unix。

3.2 新版功能.

os.putenv(key, value)

将名为 key 的环境变量值设置为 value。该变量名修改会影响由 os.system()， popen() ，fork() 和 execv() 发起的子进程。

可用性: 大部分的Unix系统，Windows。

注解

在一些平台，包括 FreeBSD 和 Mac OS X，设置 environ 可能导致内存泄露。详情参考 putenv 相关系统文档。

当系统支持 putenv() 时，os.environ 中的参数赋值会自动转换为对 putenv() 的调用。不过 putenv() 的调用不会更新 os.environ，因此最好使用 os.environ 对变量赋值。

os.setegid(egid)

设置当前进程的有效组ID。

可用性: Unix。

os.seteuid(euid)

设置当前进程的有效用户ID。

可用性: Unix。

os.setgid(gid)

设置当前进程的组ID。

可用性: Unix。

os.setgroups(groups)

将 group 参数值设置为与当进程相关联的附加组ID列表。group 参数必须为一个序列，每个元素应为每个组的数字ID。该操作通常只适用于超级用户。

可用性: Unix。

注解

在 Mac OS X 中，groups 的长度不能超过系统定义的最大有效组 ID 个数，一般为 16。 如果它没有返回与调用 setgroups() 所设置的相同的组列表，请参阅 getgroups() 的文档。

os.setpgrp()

根据已实现的版本（如果有）来调用系统 setpgrp() 或 setpgrp(0, 0) 。相关说明，请参考 Unix 手册。

可用性: Unix。

os.setpgid(pid, pgrp)

使用系统调用 setpgid()，将 pid 对应进程的组ID设置为 pgrp。相关说明，请参考 Unix 手册。

可用性: Unix。

os.setpriority(which, who, priority)

设置程序调度优先级。 which 的值为 PRIO_PROCESS, PRIO_PGRP 或 PRIO_USER 之一，而 who 会相对于 which (PRIO_PROCESS 的进程标识符, PRIO_PGRP 的进程组标识符和 PRIO_USER 的用户 ID) 被解析。 who 值为零 (分别) 表示调用进程，调用进程的进程组或调用进程的真实用户 ID。 priority 是范围在 -20 至 19 的值。 默认优先级为 0；较小的优先级数值会更优先被调度。

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.setregid(rgid, egid)

设置当前进程的真实和有效组ID。

可用性: Unix。

os.setresgid(rgid, egid, sgid)

设置当前进程的真实，有效和暂存组ID。

可用性: Unix。

3.2 新版功能.

os.setresuid(ruid, euid, suid)

设置当前进程的真实，有效和暂存用户ID。

可用性: Unix。

3.2 新版功能.

os.setreuid(ruid, euid)

设置当前进程的真实和有效用户ID。

可用性: Unix。

os.getsid(pid)

调用系统调用 getsid()。 相关语义请参阅 Unix 手册。

可用性: Unix。

os.setsid()

使用系统调用 getsid()。相关说明，请参考 Unix 手册。

可用性: Unix。

os.setuid(uid)

设置当前进程的用户ID。

可用性: Unix。

os.strerror(code)

根据 code 中的错误码返回错误消息。 在某些平台上当给出未知错误码时 strerror() 将返回 NULL 并会引发 ValueError。

os.supports_bytes_environ

如果操作系统上原生环境类型是字节型则为 True (例如在 Windows 上为 False)。

3.2 新版功能.

os.umask(mask)

设定当前数值掩码并返回之前的掩码。

os.uname()

返回当前操作系统的识别信息。返回值是一个有5个属性的对象：

  • sysname - 操作系统名
  • nodename - 机器在网络上的名称（需要先设定）
  • release - 操作系统发行信息
  • version - 操作系统版本信息
  • machine - 硬件标识符

为了向后兼容，该对象也是可迭代的，像是一个按照 sysname，nodename，release，version，和 machine 顺序组成的元组。

有些系统会将 nodename 截短为 8 个字符或截短至前缀部分；获取主机名的一个更好方式是 socket.gethostname() 或甚至可以用 socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())。

可用性: 较新的 Unix 版本。

在 3.3 版更改: 返回结果的类型由元组变成一个类似元组的对象，同时具有命名的属性。

os.unsetenv(key)

取消设置（删除）名为 key 的环境变量。变量名的改变会影响由 os.system()，popen()，fork() 和 execv() 触发的子进程。

当系统支持 unsetenv() ，删除在 os.environ 中的变量会自动转换为对 unsetenv() 的调用。但是 unsetenv() 不能更新 os.environ，因此最好直接删除 os.environ 中的变量。

可用性: 大部分的Unix系统，Windows。

创建文件对象

该函数创建新的 文件对象。 （另见 open() 关于打开文件的说明。）

os.fdopen(fd, *args, **kwargs)

返回打开文件描述符 fd 对应文件的对象。类似内建 open() 函数，二者接受同样的参数。不同之处在于 fdopen() 第一个参数应该为整数。

文件描述符操作

这些函数对文件描述符所引用的 I/O 流进行操作。

文件描述符是一些小的整数，对应于当前进程所打开的文件。例如，标准输入的文件描述符通常是0，标准输出是1，标准错误是2。之后被进程打开的文件的文件描述符会被依次指定为3，4，5等。“文件描述符”这个词有点误导性，在 Unix 平台中套接字和管道也被文件描述符所引用。

当需要时，可以用 fileno() 可以获得 file object 所对应的文件描述符。需要注意的是，直接使用文件描述符会绕过文件对象的方法，会忽略如数据内部缓冲等情况。

os.close(fd)

关闭文件描述符 fd。

注解

该功能适用于低级 I/O 操作，必须用于 os.open() 或 pipe() 返回的文件描述符。关闭由内建函数 open() ， popen() 或 fdopen() 返回的 "文件对象"，则使用其相应的 close() 方法。

os.closerange(fd_low, fd_high)

关闭从 fd_low （包括）到 fd_high （排除）间的文件描述符，并忽略错误。类似（但快于）:

for fd in range(fd_low, fd_high):
    try:
        os.close(fd)
    except OSError:
        pass
os.device_encoding(fd)

如果连接到终端，则返回一个与 fd 关联的设备描述字符，否则返回 None。

os.dup(fd)

返回一个文件描述符 fd 的副本。该文件描述符的副本是 不可继承的。

在 Windows 中，当复制一个标准流（0: stdin, 1: stdout, 2: stderr）时，新的文件描述符是 可继承的。

在 3.4 版更改: 新的文件描述符现在是不可继承的。

os.dup2(fd, fd2, inheritable=True)

把文件描述符 fd 复制为 fd2，必要时先关闭后者。返回 fd2。新的文件描述符默认是 可继承的，除非在 inheritable 为 False 时，是不可继承的。

在 3.4 版更改: 添加可选参数 inheritable。

在 3.7 版更改: 成功时返回 fd2，以过去的版本中，总是返回 None。

os.fchmod(fd, mode)

将 fd 指定文件的权限状态修改为 mode。可以参考 chmod() 中列出 mode 的可用值。从Python 3.3开始，这相当于 os.chmod(fd, mode)。

可用性: Unix。

os.fchown(fd, uid, gid)

分别将 fd 指定文件的所有者和组 ID 修改为 uid 和 gid 的值。若不想变更其中的某个 ID，可将相应值设为 -1。参考 chown()。从 Python 3.3 开始，这相当于 os.chown(fd, uid, gid)。

可用性: Unix。

os.fdatasync(fd)

强制将文件描述符 fd 指定文件写入磁盘。不强制更新元数据。

可用性: Unix。

注解

该功能在 MacOS 中不可用。

os.fpathconf(fd, name)

Return system configuration information relevant to an open file. name specifies the configuration value to retrieve; it may be a string which is the name of a defined system value; these names are specified in a number of standards (POSIX.1, Unix 95, Unix 98, and others). Some platforms define additional names as well. The names known to the host operating system are given in the pathconf_names dictionary. For configuration variables not included in that mapping, passing an integer for name is also accepted.

If name is a string and is not known, ValueError is raised. If a specific value for name is not supported by the host system, even if it is included in pathconf_names, an OSError is raised with errno.EINVAL for the error number.

从 Python 3.3 起，此功能等价于 os.pathconf(fd, name)。

可用性: Unix。

os.fstat(fd)

获取文件描述符 fd 的状态. 返回一个 stat_result 对象。

从 Python 3.3 起，此功能等价于 os.stat(fd)。

参见

stat() 函数。

os.fstatvfs(fd)

Return information about the filesystem containing the file associated with file descriptor fd, like statvfs(). As of Python 3.3, this is equivalent to os.statvfs(fd).

可用性: Unix。

os.fsync(fd)

Force write of file with filedescriptor fd to disk. On Unix, this calls the native fsync() function; on Windows, the MS _commit() function.

If you're starting with a buffered Python file object f, first do f.flush(), and then do os.fsync(f.fileno()), to ensure that all internal buffers associated with f are written to disk.

可用性: Unix, Windows。

os.ftruncate(fd, length)

Truncate the file corresponding to file descriptor fd, so that it is at most length bytes in size. As of Python 3.3, this is equivalent to os.truncate(fd, length).

可用性: Unix, Windows。

在 3.5 版更改: 添加了 Windows 支持

os.get_blocking(fd)

Get the blocking mode of the file descriptor: False if the O_NONBLOCK flag is set, True if the flag is cleared.

See also set_blocking() and socket.socket.setblocking().

可用性: Unix。

3.5 新版功能.

os.isatty(fd)

Return True if the file descriptor fd is open and connected to a tty(-like) device, else False.

os.lockf(fd, cmd, len)

Apply, test or remove a POSIX lock on an open file descriptor. fd is an open file descriptor. cmd specifies the command to use - one of F_LOCK, F_TLOCK, F_ULOCK or F_TEST. len specifies the section of the file to lock.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.F_LOCK
os.F_TLOCK
os.F_ULOCK
os.F_TEST

Flags that specify what action lockf() will take.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.lseek(fd, pos, how)

Set the current position of file descriptor fd to position pos, modified by how: SEEK_SET or 0 to set the position relative to the beginning of the file; SEEK_CUR or 1 to set it relative to the current position; SEEK_END or 2 to set it relative to the end of the file. Return the new cursor position in bytes, starting from the beginning.

os.SEEK_SET
os.SEEK_CUR
os.SEEK_END

Parameters to the lseek() function. Their values are 0, 1, and 2, respectively.

3.3 新版功能: Some operating systems could support additional values, like os.SEEK_HOLE or os.SEEK_DATA.

os.open(path, flags, mode=0o777, *, dir_fd=None)

Open the file path and set various flags according to flags and possibly its mode according to mode. When computing mode, the current umask value is first masked out. Return the file descriptor for the newly opened file. The new file descriptor is non-inheritable.

For a description of the flag and mode values, see the C run-time documentation; flag constants (like O_RDONLY and O_WRONLY) are defined in the os module. In particular, on Windows adding O_BINARY is needed to open files in binary mode.

This function can support paths relative to directory descriptors with the dir_fd parameter.

在 3.4 版更改: 新的文件描述符现在是不可继承的。

注解

This function is intended for low-level I/O. For normal usage, use the built-in function open(), which returns a file object with read() and write() methods (and many more). To wrap a file descriptor in a file object, use fdopen().

3.3 新版功能: dir_fd 参数。

在 3.5 版更改: 如果系统调用被中断，但信号处理程序没有触发异常，此函数现在会重试系统调用，而不是触发 InterruptedError 异常 (原因详见 PEP 475)。

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

The following constants are options for the flags parameter to the open() function. They can be combined using the bitwise OR operator |. Some of them are not available on all platforms. For descriptions of their availability and use, consult the open(2) manual page on Unix or the MSDN on Windows.

os.O_RDONLY
os.O_WRONLY
os.O_RDWR
os.O_APPEND
os.O_CREAT
os.O_EXCL
os.O_TRUNC

The above constants are available on Unix and Windows.

os.O_DSYNC
os.O_RSYNC
os.O_SYNC
os.O_NDELAY
os.O_NONBLOCK
os.O_NOCTTY
os.O_CLOEXEC

这个常数仅在 Unix 系统中可用。

在 3.3 版更改: Add O_CLOEXEC constant.

os.O_BINARY
os.O_NOINHERIT
os.O_SHORT_LIVED
os.O_TEMPORARY
os.O_RANDOM
os.O_SEQUENTIAL
os.O_TEXT

这个常数仅在 Windows 系统中可用。

os.O_ASYNC
os.O_DIRECT
os.O_DIRECTORY
os.O_NOFOLLOW
os.O_NOATIME
os.O_PATH
os.O_TMPFILE
os.O_SHLOCK
os.O_EXLOCK

The above constants are extensions and not present if they are not defined by the C library.

在 3.4 版更改: Add O_PATH on systems that support it. Add O_TMPFILE, only available on Linux Kernel 3.11 or newer.

os.openpty()

Open a new pseudo-terminal pair. Return a pair of file descriptors (master, slave) for the pty and the tty, respectively. The new file descriptors are non-inheritable. For a (slightly) more portable approach, use the pty module.

可用性: 某些 Unix。

在 3.4 版更改: 新的文件描述符不再可继承。

os.pipe()

Create a pipe. Return a pair of file descriptors (r, w) usable for reading and writing, respectively. The new file descriptor is non-inheritable.

可用性: Unix, Windows。

在 3.4 版更改: 新的文件描述符不再可继承。

os.pipe2(flags)

Create a pipe with flags set atomically. flags can be constructed by ORing together one or more of these values: O_NONBLOCK, O_CLOEXEC. Return a pair of file descriptors (r, w) usable for reading and writing, respectively.

可用性: 某些 Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.posix_fallocate(fd, offset, len)

Ensures that enough disk space is allocated for the file specified by fd starting from offset and continuing for len bytes.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.posix_fadvise(fd, offset, len, advice)

Announces an intention to access data in a specific pattern thus allowing the kernel to make optimizations. The advice applies to the region of the file specified by fd starting at offset and continuing for len bytes. advice is one of POSIX_FADV_NORMAL, POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL, POSIX_FADV_RANDOM, POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE, POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED or POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.POSIX_FADV_NORMAL
os.POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL
os.POSIX_FADV_RANDOM
os.POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE
os.POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED
os.POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED

Flags that can be used in advice in posix_fadvise() that specify the access pattern that is likely to be used.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.pread(fd, n, offset)

Read at most n bytes from file descriptor fd at a position of offset, leaving the file offset unchanged.

Return a bytestring containing the bytes read. If the end of the file referred to by fd has been reached, an empty bytes object is returned.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.preadv(fd, buffers, offset, flags=0)

Read from a file descriptor fd at a position of offset into mutable bytes-like objects buffers, leaving the file offset unchanged. Transfer data into each buffer until it is full and then move on to the next buffer in the sequence to hold the rest of the data.

The flags argument contains a bitwise OR of zero or more of the following flags:

Return the total number of bytes actually read which can be less than the total capacity of all the objects.

The operating system may set a limit (sysconf() value 'SC_IOV_MAX') on the number of buffers that can be used.

Combine the functionality of os.readv() and os.pread().

Availability: Linux 2.6.30 and newer, FreeBSD 6.0 and newer, OpenBSD 2.7 and newer. Using flags requires Linux 4.6 or newer.

3.7 新版功能.

os.RWF_NOWAIT

Do not wait for data which is not immediately available. If this flag is specified, the system call will return instantly if it would have to read data from the backing storage or wait for a lock.

If some data was successfully read, it will return the number of bytes read. If no bytes were read, it will return -1 and set errno to errno.EAGAIN.

Availability: Linux 4.14 and newer.

3.7 新版功能.

os.RWF_HIPRI

High priority read/write. Allows block-based filesystems to use polling of the device, which provides lower latency, but may use additional resources.

Currently, on Linux, this feature is usable only on a file descriptor opened using the O_DIRECT flag.

Availability: Linux 4.6 and newer.

3.7 新版功能.

os.pwrite(fd, str, offset)

Write the bytestring in str to file descriptor fd at position of offset, leaving the file offset unchanged.

Return the number of bytes actually written.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.pwritev(fd, buffers, offset, flags=0)

Write the buffers contents to file descriptor fd at a offset offset, leaving the file offset unchanged. buffers must be a sequence of bytes-like objects. Buffers are processed in array order. Entire contents of the first buffer is written before proceeding to the second, and so on.

The flags argument contains a bitwise OR of zero or more of the following flags:

Return the total number of bytes actually written.

The operating system may set a limit (sysconf() value 'SC_IOV_MAX') on the number of buffers that can be used.

Combine the functionality of os.writev() and os.pwrite().

Availability: Linux 2.6.30 and newer, FreeBSD 6.0 and newer, OpenBSD 2.7 and newer. Using flags requires Linux 4.7 or newer.

3.7 新版功能.

os.RWF_DSYNC

Provide a per-write equivalent of the O_DSYNC open(2) flag. This flag effect applies only to the data range written by the system call.

Availability: Linux 4.7 and newer.

3.7 新版功能.

os.RWF_SYNC

Provide a per-write equivalent of the O_SYNC open(2) flag. This flag effect applies only to the data range written by the system call.

Availability: Linux 4.7 and newer.

3.7 新版功能.

os.read(fd, n)

Read at most n bytes from file descriptor fd.

Return a bytestring containing the bytes read. If the end of the file referred to by fd has been reached, an empty bytes object is returned.

注解

This function is intended for low-level I/O and must be applied to a file descriptor as returned by os.open() or pipe(). To read a "file object" returned by the built-in function open() or by popen() or fdopen(), or sys.stdin, use its read() or readline() methods.

在 3.5 版更改: 如果系统调用被中断，但信号处理程序没有触发异常，此函数现在会重试系统调用，而不是触发 InterruptedError 异常 (原因详见 PEP 475)。

os.sendfile(out, in, offset, count)
os.sendfile(out, in, offset, count, [headers, ][trailers, ]flags=0)

Copy count bytes from file descriptor in to file descriptor out starting at offset. Return the number of bytes sent. When EOF is reached return 0.

The first function notation is supported by all platforms that define sendfile().

On Linux, if offset is given as None, the bytes are read from the current position of in and the position of in is updated.

The second case may be used on Mac OS X and FreeBSD where headers and trailers are arbitrary sequences of buffers that are written before and after the data from in is written. It returns the same as the first case.

On Mac OS X and FreeBSD, a value of 0 for count specifies to send until the end of in is reached.

All platforms support sockets as out file descriptor, and some platforms allow other types (e.g. regular file, pipe) as well.

Cross-platform applications should not use headers, trailers and flags arguments.

可用性: Unix。

注解

For a higher-level wrapper of sendfile(), see socket.socket.sendfile().

3.3 新版功能.

os.set_blocking(fd, blocking)

Set the blocking mode of the specified file descriptor. Set the O_NONBLOCK flag if blocking is False, clear the flag otherwise.

See also get_blocking() and socket.socket.setblocking().

可用性: Unix。

3.5 新版功能.

os.SF_NODISKIO
os.SF_MNOWAIT
os.SF_SYNC

Parameters to the sendfile() function, if the implementation supports them.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.readv(fd, buffers)

Read from a file descriptor fd into a number of mutable bytes-like objects buffers. Transfer data into each buffer until it is full and then move on to the next buffer in the sequence to hold the rest of the data.

Return the total number of bytes actually read which can be less than the total capacity of all the objects.

The operating system may set a limit (sysconf() value 'SC_IOV_MAX') on the number of buffers that can be used.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.tcgetpgrp(fd)

Return the process group associated with the terminal given by fd (an open file descriptor as returned by os.open()).

可用性: Unix。

os.tcsetpgrp(fd, pg)

Set the process group associated with the terminal given by fd (an open file descriptor as returned by os.open()) to pg.

可用性: Unix。

os.ttyname(fd)

Return a string which specifies the terminal device associated with file descriptor fd. If fd is not associated with a terminal device, an exception is raised.

可用性: Unix。

os.write(fd, str)

Write the bytestring in str to file descriptor fd.

Return the number of bytes actually written.

注解

This function is intended for low-level I/O and must be applied to a file descriptor as returned by os.open() or pipe(). To write a "file object" returned by the built-in function open() or by popen() or fdopen(), or sys.stdout or sys.stderr, use its write() method.

在 3.5 版更改: 如果系统调用被中断，但信号处理程序没有触发异常，此函数现在会重试系统调用，而不是触发 InterruptedError 异常 (原因详见 PEP 475)。

os.writev(fd, buffers)

Write the contents of buffers to file descriptor fd. buffers must be a sequence of bytes-like objects. Buffers are processed in array order. Entire contents of the first buffer is written before proceeding to the second, and so on.

Returns the total number of bytes actually written.

The operating system may set a limit (sysconf() value 'SC_IOV_MAX') on the number of buffers that can be used.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

Querying the size of a terminal

3.3 新版功能.

os.get_terminal_size(fd=STDOUT_FILENO)

Return the size of the terminal window as (columns, lines), tuple of type terminal_size.

The optional argument fd (default STDOUT_FILENO, or standard output) specifies which file descriptor should be queried.

If the file descriptor is not connected to a terminal, an OSError is raised.

shutil.get_terminal_size() is the high-level function which should normally be used, os.get_terminal_size is the low-level implementation.

可用性: Unix, Windows。

class os.terminal_size

A subclass of tuple, holding (columns, lines) of the terminal window size.

columns

Width of the terminal window in characters.

lines

Height of the terminal window in characters.

Inheritance of File Descriptors

3.4 新版功能.

A file descriptor has an "inheritable" flag which indicates if the file descriptor can be inherited by child processes. Since Python 3.4, file descriptors created by Python are non-inheritable by default.

On UNIX, non-inheritable file descriptors are closed in child processes at the execution of a new program, other file descriptors are inherited.

On Windows, non-inheritable handles and file descriptors are closed in child processes, except for standard streams (file descriptors 0, 1 and 2: stdin, stdout and stderr), which are always inherited. Using spawn* functions, all inheritable handles and all inheritable file descriptors are inherited. Using the subprocess module, all file descriptors except standard streams are closed, and inheritable handles are only inherited if the close_fds parameter is False.

os.get_inheritable(fd)

Get the "inheritable" flag of the specified file descriptor (a boolean).

os.set_inheritable(fd, inheritable)

Set the "inheritable" flag of the specified file descriptor.

os.get_handle_inheritable(handle)

Get the "inheritable" flag of the specified handle (a boolean).

可用性: Windows。

os.set_handle_inheritable(handle, inheritable)

Set the "inheritable" flag of the specified handle.

可用性: Windows。

Files and Directories

On some Unix platforms, many of these functions support one or more of these features:

  • specifying a file descriptor: For some functions, the path argument can be not only a string giving a path name, but also a file descriptor. The function will then operate on the file referred to by the descriptor. (For POSIX systems, Python will call the f... version of the function.)

    You can check whether or not path can be specified as a file descriptor on your platform using os.supports_fd. If it is unavailable, using it will raise a NotImplementedError.

    If the function also supports dir_fd or follow_symlinks arguments, it is an error to specify one of those when supplying path as a file descriptor.

  • paths relative to directory descriptors: If dir_fd is not None, it should be a file descriptor referring to a directory, and the path to operate on should be relative; path will then be relative to that directory. If the path is absolute, dir_fd is ignored. (For POSIX systems, Python will call the ...at or f...at version of the function.)

    You can check whether or not dir_fd is supported on your platform using os.supports_dir_fd. If it is unavailable, using it will raise a NotImplementedError.

os.access(path, mode, *, dir_fd=None, effective_ids=False, follow_symlinks=True)

Use the real uid/gid to test for access to path. Note that most operations will use the effective uid/gid, therefore this routine can be used in a suid/sgid environment to test if the invoking user has the specified access to path. mode should be F_OK to test the existence of path, or it can be the inclusive OR of one or more of R_OK, W_OK, and X_OK to test permissions. Return True if access is allowed, False if not. See the Unix man page access(2) for more information.

This function can support specifying paths relative to directory descriptors and not following symlinks.

If effective_ids is True, access() will perform its access checks using the effective uid/gid instead of the real uid/gid. effective_ids may not be supported on your platform; you can check whether or not it is available using os.supports_effective_ids. If it is unavailable, using it will raise a NotImplementedError.

注解

Using access() to check if a user is authorized to e.g. open a file before actually doing so using open() creates a security hole, because the user might exploit the short time interval between checking and opening the file to manipulate it. It's preferable to use EAFP techniques. For example:

if os.access("myfile", os.R_OK):
    with open("myfile") as fp:
        return fp.read()
return "some default data"

is better written as:

try:
    fp = open("myfile")
except PermissionError:
    return "some default data"
else:
    with fp:
        return fp.read()

注解

I/O operations may fail even when access() indicates that they would succeed, particularly for operations on network filesystems which may have permissions semantics beyond the usual POSIX permission-bit model.

在 3.3 版更改: Added the dir_fd, effective_ids, and follow_symlinks parameters.

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.F_OK
os.R_OK
os.W_OK
os.X_OK

Values to pass as the mode parameter of access() to test the existence, readability, writability and executability of path, respectively.

os.chdir(path)

Change the current working directory to path.

This function can support specifying a file descriptor. The descriptor must refer to an opened directory, not an open file.

3.3 新版功能: Added support for specifying path as a file descriptor on some platforms.

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.chflags(path, flags, *, follow_symlinks=True)

Set the flags of path to the numeric flags. flags may take a combination (bitwise OR) of the following values (as defined in the stat module):

This function can support not following symlinks.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能: The follow_symlinks argument.

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.chmod(path, mode, *, dir_fd=None, follow_symlinks=True)

Change the mode of path to the numeric mode. mode may take one of the following values (as defined in the stat module) or bitwise ORed combinations of them:

This function can support specifying a file descriptor, paths relative to directory descriptors and not following symlinks.

注解

Although Windows supports chmod(), you can only set the file's read-only flag with it (via the stat.S_IWRITE and stat.S_IREAD constants or a corresponding integer value). All other bits are ignored.

3.3 新版功能: Added support for specifying path as an open file descriptor, and the dir_fd and follow_symlinks arguments.

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.chown(path, uid, gid, *, dir_fd=None, follow_symlinks=True)

Change the owner and group id of path to the numeric uid and gid. To leave one of the ids unchanged, set it to -1.

This function can support specifying a file descriptor, paths relative to directory descriptors and not following symlinks.

See shutil.chown() for a higher-level function that accepts names in addition to numeric ids.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能: Added support for specifying an open file descriptor for path, and the dir_fd and follow_symlinks arguments.

在 3.6 版更改: Supports a path-like object.

os.chroot(path)

Change the root directory of the current process to path.

可用性: Unix。

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.fchdir(fd)

Change the current working directory to the directory represented by the file descriptor fd. The descriptor must refer to an opened directory, not an open file. As of Python 3.3, this is equivalent to os.chdir(fd).

可用性: Unix。

os.getcwd()

Return a string representing the current working directory.

os.getcwdb()

Return a bytestring representing the current working directory.

os.lchflags(path, flags)

Set the flags of path to the numeric flags, like chflags(), but do not follow symbolic links. As of Python 3.3, this is equivalent to os.chflags(path, flags, follow_symlinks=False).

可用性: Unix。

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.lchmod(path, mode)

Change the mode of path to the numeric mode. If path is a symlink, this affects the symlink rather than the target. See the docs for chmod() for possible values of mode. As of Python 3.3, this is equivalent to os.chmod(path, mode, follow_symlinks=False).

可用性: Unix。

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.lchown(path, uid, gid)

Change the owner and group id of path to the numeric uid and gid. This function will not follow symbolic links. As of Python 3.3, this is equivalent to os.chown(path, uid, gid, follow_symlinks=False).

可用性: Unix。

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

Create a hard link pointing to src named dst.

This function can support specifying src_dir_fd and/or dst_dir_fd to supply paths relative to directory descriptors, and not following symlinks.

可用性: Unix, Windows。

在 3.2 版更改: Added Windows support.

3.3 新版功能: Added the src_dir_fd, dst_dir_fd, and follow_symlinks arguments.

在 3.6 版更改: Accepts a path-like object for src and dst.

os.listdir(path='.')

Return a list containing the names of the entries in the directory given by path. The list is in arbitrary order, and does not include the special entries '.' and '..' even if they are present in the directory.

path may be a path-like object. If path is of type bytes (directly or indirectly through the PathLike interface), the filenames returned will also be of type bytes; in all other circumstances, they will be of type str.

This function can also support specifying a file descriptor; the file descriptor must refer to a directory.

注解

To encode str filenames to bytes, use fsencode().

参见

The scandir() function returns directory entries along with file attribute information, giving better performance for many common use cases.

在 3.2 版更改: The path parameter became optional.

3.3 新版功能: Added support for specifying an open file descriptor for path.

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.lstat(path, *, dir_fd=None)

Perform the equivalent of an lstat() system call on the given path. Similar to stat(), but does not follow symbolic links. Return a stat_result object.

On platforms that do not support symbolic links, this is an alias for stat().

As of Python 3.3, this is equivalent to os.stat(path, dir_fd=dir_fd, follow_symlinks=False).

This function can also support paths relative to directory descriptors.

参见

stat() 函数。

在 3.2 版更改: Added support for Windows 6.0 (Vista) symbolic links.

在 3.3 版更改: Added the dir_fd parameter.

在 3.6 版更改: Accepts a path-like object for src and dst.

os.mkdir(path, mode=0o777, *, dir_fd=None)

Create a directory named path with numeric mode mode.

If the directory already exists, FileExistsError is raised.

On some systems, mode is ignored. Where it is used, the current umask value is first masked out. If bits other than the last 9 (i.e. the last 3 digits of the octal representation of the mode) are set, their meaning is platform-dependent. On some platforms, they are ignored and you should call chmod() explicitly to set them.

This function can also support paths relative to directory descriptors.

It is also possible to create temporary directories; see the tempfile module's tempfile.mkdtemp() function.

3.3 新版功能: dir_fd 参数。

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.makedirs(name, mode=0o777, exist_ok=False)

Recursive directory creation function. Like mkdir(), but makes all intermediate-level directories needed to contain the leaf directory.

The mode parameter is passed to mkdir() for creating the leaf directory; see the mkdir() description for how it is interpreted. To set the file permission bits of any newly-created parent directories you can set the umask before invoking makedirs(). The file permission bits of existing parent directories are not changed.

If exist_ok is False (the default), an OSError is raised if the target directory already exists.

注解

makedirs() will become confused if the path elements to create include pardir (eg. ".." on UNIX systems).

This function handles UNC paths correctly.

3.2 新版功能: The exist_ok parameter.

在 3.4.1 版更改: Before Python 3.4.1, if exist_ok was True and the directory existed, makedirs() would still raise an error if mode did not match the mode of the existing directory. Since this behavior was impossible to implement safely, it was removed in Python 3.4.1. See bpo-21082.

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

在 3.7 版更改: The mode argument no longer affects the file permission bits of newly-created intermediate-level directories.

os.mkfifo(path, mode=0o666, *, dir_fd=None)

Create a FIFO (a named pipe) named path with numeric mode mode. The current umask value is first masked out from the mode.

This function can also support paths relative to directory descriptors.

FIFOs are pipes that can be accessed like regular files. FIFOs exist until they are deleted (for example with os.unlink()). Generally, FIFOs are used as rendezvous between "client" and "server" type processes: the server opens the FIFO for reading, and the client opens it for writing. Note that mkfifo() doesn't open the FIFO --- it just creates the rendezvous point.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能: dir_fd 参数。

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.mknod(path, mode=0o600, device=0, *, dir_fd=None)

Create a filesystem node (file, device special file or named pipe) named path. mode specifies both the permissions to use and the type of node to be created, being combined (bitwise OR) with one of stat.S_IFREG, stat.S_IFCHR, stat.S_IFBLK, and stat.S_IFIFO (those constants are available in stat). For stat.S_IFCHR and stat.S_IFBLK, device defines the newly created device special file (probably using os.makedev()), otherwise it is ignored.

This function can also support paths relative to directory descriptors.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能: dir_fd 参数。

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.major(device)

Extract the device major number from a raw device number (usually the st_dev or st_rdev field from stat).

os.minor(device)

Extract the device minor number from a raw device number (usually the st_dev or st_rdev field from stat).

os.makedev(major, minor)

Compose a raw device number from the major and minor device numbers.

os.pathconf(path, name)

Return system configuration information relevant to a named file. name specifies the configuration value to retrieve; it may be a string which is the name of a defined system value; these names are specified in a number of standards (POSIX.1, Unix 95, Unix 98, and others). Some platforms define additional names as well. The names known to the host operating system are given in the pathconf_names dictionary. For configuration variables not included in that mapping, passing an integer for name is also accepted.

If name is a string and is not known, ValueError is raised. If a specific value for name is not supported by the host system, even if it is included in pathconf_names, an OSError is raised with errno.EINVAL for the error number.

This function can support specifying a file descriptor.

可用性: Unix。

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.pathconf_names

Dictionary mapping names accepted by pathconf() and fpathconf() to the integer values defined for those names by the host operating system. This can be used to determine the set of names known to the system.

可用性: Unix。

Return a string representing the path to which the symbolic link points. The result may be either an absolute or relative pathname; if it is relative, it may be converted to an absolute pathname using os.path.join(os.path.dirname(path), result).

If the path is a string object (directly or indirectly through a PathLike interface), the result will also be a string object, and the call may raise a UnicodeDecodeError. If the path is a bytes object (direct or indirectly), the result will be a bytes object.

This function can also support paths relative to directory descriptors.

可用性: Unix, Windows。

在 3.2 版更改: Added support for Windows 6.0 (Vista) symbolic links.

3.3 新版功能: dir_fd 参数。

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.remove(path, *, dir_fd=None)

Remove (delete) the file path. If path is a directory, OSError is raised. Use rmdir() to remove directories.

This function can support paths relative to directory descriptors.

On Windows, attempting to remove a file that is in use causes an exception to be raised; on Unix, the directory entry is removed but the storage allocated to the file is not made available until the original file is no longer in use.

This function is semantically identical to unlink().

3.3 新版功能: dir_fd 参数。

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.removedirs(name)

Remove directories recursively. Works like rmdir() except that, if the leaf directory is successfully removed, removedirs() tries to successively remove every parent directory mentioned in path until an error is raised (which is ignored, because it generally means that a parent directory is not empty). For example, os.removedirs('foo/bar/baz') will first remove the directory 'foo/bar/baz', and then remove 'foo/bar' and 'foo' if they are empty. Raises OSError if the leaf directory could not be successfully removed.

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.rename(src, dst, *, src_dir_fd=None, dst_dir_fd=None)

Rename the file or directory src to dst. If dst is a directory, OSError will be raised. On Unix, if dst exists and is a file, it will be replaced silently if the user has permission. The operation may fail on some Unix flavors if src and dst are on different filesystems. If successful, the renaming will be an atomic operation (this is a POSIX requirement). On Windows, if dst already exists, OSError will be raised even if it is a file.

This function can support specifying src_dir_fd and/or dst_dir_fd to supply paths relative to directory descriptors.

If you want cross-platform overwriting of the destination, use replace().

3.3 新版功能: The src_dir_fd and dst_dir_fd arguments.

在 3.6 版更改: Accepts a path-like object for src and dst.

os.renames(old, new)

Recursive directory or file renaming function. Works like rename(), except creation of any intermediate directories needed to make the new pathname good is attempted first. After the rename, directories corresponding to rightmost path segments of the old name will be pruned away using removedirs().

注解

This function can fail with the new directory structure made if you lack permissions needed to remove the leaf directory or file.

在 3.6 版更改: Accepts a path-like object for old and new.

os.replace(src, dst, *, src_dir_fd=None, dst_dir_fd=None)

Rename the file or directory src to dst. If dst is a directory, OSError will be raised. If dst exists and is a file, it will be replaced silently if the user has permission. The operation may fail if src and dst are on different filesystems. If successful, the renaming will be an atomic operation (this is a POSIX requirement).

This function can support specifying src_dir_fd and/or dst_dir_fd to supply paths relative to directory descriptors.

3.3 新版功能.

在 3.6 版更改: Accepts a path-like object for src and dst.

os.rmdir(path, *, dir_fd=None)

Remove (delete) the directory path. Only works when the directory is empty, otherwise, OSError is raised. In order to remove whole directory trees, shutil.rmtree() can be used.

This function can support paths relative to directory descriptors.

3.3 新版功能: The dir_fd parameter.

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.scandir(path='.')

Return an iterator of os.DirEntry objects corresponding to the entries in the directory given by path. The entries are yielded in arbitrary order, and the special entries '.' and '..' are not included.

Using scandir() instead of listdir() can significantly increase the performance of code that also needs file type or file attribute information, because os.DirEntry objects expose this information if the operating system provides it when scanning a directory. All os.DirEntry methods may perform a system call, but is_dir() and is_file() usually only require a system call for symbolic links; os.DirEntry.stat() always requires a system call on Unix but only requires one for symbolic links on Windows.

path may be a path-like object. If path is of type bytes (directly or indirectly through the PathLike interface), the type of the name and path attributes of each os.DirEntry will be bytes; in all other circumstances, they will be of type str.

This function can also support specifying a file descriptor; the file descriptor must refer to a directory.

The scandir() iterator supports the context manager protocol and has the following method:

scandir.close()

Close the iterator and free acquired resources.

This is called automatically when the iterator is exhausted or garbage collected, or when an error happens during iterating. However it is advisable to call it explicitly or use the with statement.

3.6 新版功能.

The following example shows a simple use of scandir() to display all the files (excluding directories) in the given path that don't start with '.'. The entry.is_file() call will generally not make an additional system call:

with os.scandir(path) as it:
    for entry in it:
        if not entry.name.startswith('.') and entry.is_file():
            print(entry.name)

注解

On Unix-based systems, scandir() uses the system's opendir() and readdir() functions. On Windows, it uses the Win32 FindFirstFileW and FindNextFileW functions.

3.5 新版功能.

3.6 新版功能: Added support for the context manager protocol and the close() method. If a scandir() iterator is neither exhausted nor explicitly closed a ResourceWarning will be emitted in its destructor.

The function accepts a path-like object.

在 3.7 版更改: Added support for file descriptors on Unix.

class os.DirEntry

Object yielded by scandir() to expose the file path and other file attributes of a directory entry.

scandir() will provide as much of this information as possible without making additional system calls. When a stat() or lstat() system call is made, the os.DirEntry object will cache the result.

os.DirEntry instances are not intended to be stored in long-lived data structures; if you know the file metadata has changed or if a long time has elapsed since calling scandir(), call os.stat(entry.path) to fetch up-to-date information.

Because the os.DirEntry methods can make operating system calls, they may also raise OSError. If you need very fine-grained control over errors, you can catch OSError when calling one of the os.DirEntry methods and handle as appropriate.

To be directly usable as a path-like object, os.DirEntry implements the PathLike interface.

Attributes and methods on a os.DirEntry instance are as follows:

name

The entry's base filename, relative to the scandir() path argument.

The name attribute will be bytes if the scandir() path argument is of type bytes and str otherwise. Use fsdecode() to decode byte filenames.

path

The entry's full path name: equivalent to os.path.join(scandir_path, entry.name) where scandir_path is the scandir() path argument. The path is only absolute if the scandir() path argument was absolute. If the scandir() path argument was a file descriptor, the path attribute is the same as the name attribute.

The path attribute will be bytes if the scandir() path argument is of type bytes and str otherwise. Use fsdecode() to decode byte filenames.

inode()

Return the inode number of the entry.

The result is cached on the os.DirEntry object. Use os.stat(entry.path, follow_symlinks=False).st_ino to fetch up-to-date information.

On the first, uncached call, a system call is required on Windows but not on Unix.

is_dir(*, follow_symlinks=True)

Return True if this entry is a directory or a symbolic link pointing to a directory; return False if the entry is or points to any other kind of file, or if it doesn't exist anymore.

If follow_symlinks is False, return True only if this entry is a directory (without following symlinks); return False if the entry is any other kind of file or if it doesn't exist anymore.

The result is cached on the os.DirEntry object, with a separate cache for follow_symlinks True and False. Call os.stat() along with stat.S_ISDIR() to fetch up-to-date information.

On the first, uncached call, no system call is required in most cases. Specifically, for non-symlinks, neither Windows or Unix require a system call, except on certain Unix file systems, such as network file systems, that return dirent.d_type == DT_UNKNOWN. If the entry is a symlink, a system call will be required to follow the symlink unless follow_symlinks is False.

This method can raise OSError, such as PermissionError, but FileNotFoundError is caught and not raised.

is_file(*, follow_symlinks=True)

Return True if this entry is a file or a symbolic link pointing to a file; return False if the entry is or points to a directory or other non-file entry, or if it doesn't exist anymore.

If follow_symlinks is False, return True only if this entry is a file (without following symlinks); return False if the entry is a directory or other non-file entry, or if it doesn't exist anymore.

The result is cached on the os.DirEntry object. Caching, system calls made, and exceptions raised are as per is_dir().

Return True if this entry is a symbolic link (even if broken); return False if the entry points to a directory or any kind of file, or if it doesn't exist anymore.

The result is cached on the os.DirEntry object. Call os.path.islink() to fetch up-to-date information.

On the first, uncached call, no system call is required in most cases. Specifically, neither Windows or Unix require a system call, except on certain Unix file systems, such as network file systems, that return dirent.d_type == DT_UNKNOWN.

This method can raise OSError, such as PermissionError, but FileNotFoundError is caught and not raised.

stat(*, follow_symlinks=True)

Return a stat_result object for this entry. This method follows symbolic links by default; to stat a symbolic link add the follow_symlinks=False argument.

On Unix, this method always requires a system call. On Windows, it only requires a system call if follow_symlinks is True and the entry is a symbolic link.

On Windows, the st_ino, st_dev and st_nlink attributes of the stat_result are always set to zero. Call os.stat() to get these attributes.

The result is cached on the os.DirEntry object, with a separate cache for follow_symlinks True and False. Call os.stat() to fetch up-to-date information.

Note that there is a nice correspondence between several attributes and methods of os.DirEntry and of pathlib.Path. In particular, the name attribute has the same meaning, as do the is_dir(), is_file(), is_symlink() and stat() methods.

3.5 新版功能.

在 3.6 版更改: Added support for the PathLike interface. Added support for bytes paths on Windows.

os.stat(path, *, dir_fd=None, follow_symlinks=True)

Get the status of a file or a file descriptor. Perform the equivalent of a stat() system call on the given path. path may be specified as either a string or bytes -- directly or indirectly through the PathLike interface -- or as an open file descriptor. Return a stat_result object.

This function normally follows symlinks; to stat a symlink add the argument follow_symlinks=False, or use lstat().

This function can support specifying a file descriptor and not following symlinks.

示例:

>>> import os
>>> statinfo = os.stat('somefile.txt')
>>> statinfo
os.stat_result(st_mode=33188, st_ino=7876932, st_dev=234881026,
st_nlink=1, st_uid=501, st_gid=501, st_size=264, st_atime=1297230295,
st_mtime=1297230027, st_ctime=1297230027)
>>> statinfo.st_size
264

参见

fstat() and lstat() functions.

3.3 新版功能: Added the dir_fd and follow_symlinks arguments, specifying a file descriptor instead of a path.

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

class os.stat_result

Object whose attributes correspond roughly to the members of the stat structure. It is used for the result of os.stat(), os.fstat() and os.lstat().

Attributes:

st_mode

File mode: file type and file mode bits (permissions).

st_ino

Platform dependent, but if non-zero, uniquely identifies the file for a given value of st_dev. Typically:

  • the inode number on Unix,
  • the file index on Windows
st_dev

Identifier of the device on which this file resides.

Number of hard links.

st_uid

User identifier of the file owner.

st_gid

Group identifier of the file owner.

st_size

Size of the file in bytes, if it is a regular file or a symbolic link. The size of a symbolic link is the length of the pathname it contains, without a terminating null byte.

Timestamps:

st_atime

Time of most recent access expressed in seconds.

st_mtime

Time of most recent content modification expressed in seconds.

st_ctime

Platform dependent:

  • the time of most recent metadata change on Unix,
  • the time of creation on Windows, expressed in seconds.
st_atime_ns

Time of most recent access expressed in nanoseconds as an integer.

st_mtime_ns

Time of most recent content modification expressed in nanoseconds as an integer.

st_ctime_ns

Platform dependent:

  • the time of most recent metadata change on Unix,
  • the time of creation on Windows, expressed in nanoseconds as an integer.

注解

The exact meaning and resolution of the st_atime, st_mtime, and st_ctime attributes depend on the operating system and the file system. For example, on Windows systems using the FAT or FAT32 file systems, st_mtime has 2-second resolution, and st_atime has only 1-day resolution. See your operating system documentation for details.

Similarly, although st_atime_ns, st_mtime_ns, and st_ctime_ns are always expressed in nanoseconds, many systems do not provide nanosecond precision. On systems that do provide nanosecond precision, the floating-point object used to store st_atime, st_mtime, and st_ctime cannot preserve all of it, and as such will be slightly inexact. If you need the exact timestamps you should always use st_atime_ns, st_mtime_ns, and st_ctime_ns.

On some Unix systems (such as Linux), the following attributes may also be available:

st_blocks

Number of 512-byte blocks allocated for file. This may be smaller than st_size/512 when the file has holes.

st_blksize

"Preferred" blocksize for efficient file system I/O. Writing to a file in smaller chunks may cause an inefficient read-modify-rewrite.

st_rdev

Type of device if an inode device.

st_flags

User defined flags for file.

On other Unix systems (such as FreeBSD), the following attributes may be available (but may be only filled out if root tries to use them):

st_gen

File generation number.

st_birthtime

Time of file creation.

On Solaris and derivatives, the following attributes may also be available:

st_fstype

String that uniquely identifies the type of the filesystem that contains the file.

On Mac OS systems, the following attributes may also be available:

st_rsize

Real size of the file.

st_creator

Creator of the file.

st_type

File type.

On Windows systems, the following attribute is also available:

st_file_attributes

Windows file attributes: dwFileAttributes member of the BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION structure returned by GetFileInformationByHandle(). See the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_* constants in the stat module.

The standard module stat defines functions and constants that are useful for extracting information from a stat structure. (On Windows, some items are filled with dummy values.)

For backward compatibility, a stat_result instance is also accessible as a tuple of at least 10 integers giving the most important (and portable) members of the stat structure, in the order st_mode, st_ino, st_dev, st_nlink, st_uid, st_gid, st_size, st_atime, st_mtime, st_ctime. More items may be added at the end by some implementations. For compatibility with older Python versions, accessing stat_result as a tuple always returns integers.

3.3 新版功能: Added the st_atime_ns, st_mtime_ns, and st_ctime_ns members.

3.5 新版功能: Added the st_file_attributes member on Windows.

在 3.5 版更改: Windows now returns the file index as st_ino when available.

3.7 新版功能: Added the st_fstype member to Solaris/derivatives.

os.statvfs(path)

Perform a statvfs() system call on the given path. The return value is an object whose attributes describe the filesystem on the given path, and correspond to the members of the statvfs structure, namely: f_bsize, f_frsize, f_blocks, f_bfree, f_bavail, f_files, f_ffree, f_favail, f_flag, f_namemax, f_fsid.

Two module-level constants are defined for the f_flag attribute's bit-flags: if ST_RDONLY is set, the filesystem is mounted read-only, and if ST_NOSUID is set, the semantics of setuid/setgid bits are disabled or not supported.

Additional module-level constants are defined for GNU/glibc based systems. These are ST_NODEV (disallow access to device special files), ST_NOEXEC (disallow program execution), ST_SYNCHRONOUS (writes are synced at once), ST_MANDLOCK (allow mandatory locks on an FS), ST_WRITE (write on file/directory/symlink), ST_APPEND (append-only file), ST_IMMUTABLE (immutable file), ST_NOATIME (do not update access times), ST_NODIRATIME (do not update directory access times), ST_RELATIME (update atime relative to mtime/ctime).

This function can support specifying a file descriptor.

可用性: Unix。

在 3.2 版更改: The ST_RDONLY and ST_NOSUID constants were added.

3.3 新版功能: Added support for specifying an open file descriptor for path.

在 3.4 版更改: The ST_NODEV, ST_NOEXEC, ST_SYNCHRONOUS, ST_MANDLOCK, ST_WRITE, ST_APPEND, ST_IMMUTABLE, ST_NOATIME, ST_NODIRATIME, and ST_RELATIME constants were added.

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

3.7 新版功能: Added f_fsid.

os.supports_dir_fd

A Set object indicating which functions in the os module permit use of their dir_fd parameter. Different platforms provide different functionality, and an option that might work on one might be unsupported on another. For consistency's sakes, functions that support dir_fd always allow specifying the parameter, but will raise an exception if the functionality is not actually available.

To check whether a particular function permits use of its dir_fd parameter, use the in operator on supports_dir_fd. As an example, this expression determines whether the dir_fd parameter of os.stat() is locally available:

os.stat in os.supports_dir_fd

Currently dir_fd parameters only work on Unix platforms; none of them work on Windows.

3.3 新版功能.

os.supports_effective_ids

A Set object indicating which functions in the os module permit use of the effective_ids parameter for os.access(). If the local platform supports it, the collection will contain os.access(), otherwise it will be empty.

To check whether you can use the effective_ids parameter for os.access(), use the in operator on supports_effective_ids, like so:

os.access in os.supports_effective_ids

Currently effective_ids only works on Unix platforms; it does not work on Windows.

3.3 新版功能.

os.supports_fd

A Set object indicating which functions in the os module permit specifying their path parameter as an open file descriptor. Different platforms provide different functionality, and an option that might work on one might be unsupported on another. For consistency's sakes, functions that support fd always allow specifying the parameter, but will raise an exception if the functionality is not actually available.

To check whether a particular function permits specifying an open file descriptor for its path parameter, use the in operator on supports_fd. As an example, this expression determines whether os.chdir() accepts open file descriptors when called on your local platform:

os.chdir in os.supports_fd

3.3 新版功能.

A Set object indicating which functions in the os module permit use of their follow_symlinks parameter. Different platforms provide different functionality, and an option that might work on one might be unsupported on another. For consistency's sakes, functions that support follow_symlinks always allow specifying the parameter, but will raise an exception if the functionality is not actually available.

To check whether a particular function permits use of its follow_symlinks parameter, use the in operator on supports_follow_symlinks. As an example, this expression determines whether the follow_symlinks parameter of os.stat() is locally available:

os.stat in os.supports_follow_symlinks

3.3 新版功能.

Create a symbolic link pointing to src named dst.

On Windows, a symlink represents either a file or a directory, and does not morph to the target dynamically. If the target is present, the type of the symlink will be created to match. Otherwise, the symlink will be created as a directory if target_is_directory is True or a file symlink (the default) otherwise. On non-Windows platforms, target_is_directory is ignored.

Symbolic link support was introduced in Windows 6.0 (Vista). symlink() will raise a NotImplementedError on Windows versions earlier than 6.0.

This function can support paths relative to directory descriptors.

注解

On Windows, the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is required in order to successfully create symlinks. This privilege is not typically granted to regular users but is available to accounts which can escalate privileges to the administrator level. Either obtaining the privilege or running your application as an administrator are ways to successfully create symlinks.

OSError is raised when the function is called by an unprivileged user.

可用性: Unix, Windows。

在 3.2 版更改: Added support for Windows 6.0 (Vista) symbolic links.

3.3 新版功能: Added the dir_fd argument, and now allow target_is_directory on non-Windows platforms.

在 3.6 版更改: Accepts a path-like object for src and dst.

os.sync()

Force write of everything to disk.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.truncate(path, length)

Truncate the file corresponding to path, so that it is at most length bytes in size.

This function can support specifying a file descriptor.

可用性: Unix, Windows。

3.3 新版功能.

在 3.5 版更改: 添加了 Windows 支持

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

Remove (delete) the file path. This function is semantically identical to remove(); the unlink name is its traditional Unix name. Please see the documentation for remove() for further information.

3.3 新版功能: The dir_fd parameter.

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.utime(path, times=None, *, [ns, ]dir_fd=None, follow_symlinks=True)

Set the access and modified times of the file specified by path.

utime() takes two optional parameters, times and ns. These specify the times set on path and are used as follows:

  • If ns is specified, it must be a 2-tuple of the form (atime_ns, mtime_ns) where each member is an int expressing nanoseconds.
  • If times is not None, it must be a 2-tuple of the form (atime, mtime) where each member is an int or float expressing seconds.
  • If times is None and ns is unspecified, this is equivalent to specifying ns=(atime_ns, mtime_ns) where both times are the current time.

It is an error to specify tuples for both times and ns.

Whether a directory can be given for path depends on whether the operating system implements directories as files (for example, Windows does not). Note that the exact times you set here may not be returned by a subsequent stat() call, depending on the resolution with which your operating system records access and modification times; see stat(). The best way to preserve exact times is to use the st_atime_ns and st_mtime_ns fields from the os.stat() result object with the ns parameter to utime.

This function can support specifying a file descriptor, paths relative to directory descriptors and not following symlinks.

3.3 新版功能: Added support for specifying an open file descriptor for path, and the dir_fd, follow_symlinks, and ns parameters.

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.walk(top, topdown=True, onerror=None, followlinks=False)

Generate the file names in a directory tree by walking the tree either top-down or bottom-up. For each directory in the tree rooted at directory top (including top itself), it yields a 3-tuple (dirpath, dirnames, filenames).

dirpath is a string, the path to the directory. dirnames is a list of the names of the subdirectories in dirpath (excluding '.' and '..'). filenames is a list of the names of the non-directory files in dirpath. Note that the names in the lists contain no path components. To get a full path (which begins with top) to a file or directory in dirpath, do os.path.join(dirpath, name).

If optional argument topdown is True or not specified, the triple for a directory is generated before the triples for any of its subdirectories (directories are generated top-down). If topdown is False, the triple for a directory is generated after the triples for all of its subdirectories (directories are generated bottom-up). No matter the value of topdown, the list of subdirectories is retrieved before the tuples for the directory and its subdirectories are generated.

When topdown is True, the caller can modify the dirnames list in-place (perhaps using del or slice assignment), and walk() will only recurse into the subdirectories whose names remain in dirnames; this can be used to prune the search, impose a specific order of visiting, or even to inform walk() about directories the caller creates or renames before it resumes walk() again. Modifying dirnames when topdown is False has no effect on the behavior of the walk, because in bottom-up mode the directories in dirnames are generated before dirpath itself is generated.

By default, errors from the scandir() call are ignored. If optional argument onerror is specified, it should be a function; it will be called with one argument, an OSError instance. It can report the error to continue with the walk, or raise the exception to abort the walk. Note that the filename is available as the filename attribute of the exception object.

By default, walk() will not walk down into symbolic links that resolve to directories. Set followlinks to True to visit directories pointed to by symlinks, on systems that support them.

注解

Be aware that setting followlinks to True can lead to infinite recursion if a link points to a parent directory of itself. walk() does not keep track of the directories it visited already.

注解

If you pass a relative pathname, don't change the current working directory between resumptions of walk(). walk() never changes the current directory, and assumes that its caller doesn't either.

This example displays the number of bytes taken by non-directory files in each directory under the starting directory, except that it doesn't look under any CVS subdirectory:

import os
from os.path import join, getsize
for root, dirs, files in os.walk('python/Lib/email'):
    print(root, "consumes", end=" ")
    print(sum(getsize(join(root, name)) for name in files), end=" ")
    print("bytes in", len(files), "non-directory files")
    if 'CVS' in dirs:
        dirs.remove('CVS')  # don't visit CVS directories

In the next example (simple implementation of shutil.rmtree()), walking the tree bottom-up is essential, rmdir() doesn't allow deleting a directory before the directory is empty:

# Delete everything reachable from the directory named in "top",
# assuming there are no symbolic links.
# CAUTION:  This is dangerous!  For example, if top == '/', it
# could delete all your disk files.
import os
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(top, topdown=False):
    for name in files:
        os.remove(os.path.join(root, name))
    for name in dirs:
        os.rmdir(os.path.join(root, name))

在 3.5 版更改: This function now calls os.scandir() instead of os.listdir(), making it faster by reducing the number of calls to os.stat().

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.fwalk(top='.', topdown=True, onerror=None, *, follow_symlinks=False, dir_fd=None)

This behaves exactly like walk(), except that it yields a 4-tuple (dirpath, dirnames, filenames, dirfd), and it supports dir_fd.

dirpath, dirnames and filenames are identical to walk() output, and dirfd is a file descriptor referring to the directory dirpath.

This function always supports paths relative to directory descriptors and not following symlinks. Note however that, unlike other functions, the fwalk() default value for follow_symlinks is False.

注解

Since fwalk() yields file descriptors, those are only valid until the next iteration step, so you should duplicate them (e.g. with dup()) if you want to keep them longer.

This example displays the number of bytes taken by non-directory files in each directory under the starting directory, except that it doesn't look under any CVS subdirectory:

import os
for root, dirs, files, rootfd in os.fwalk('python/Lib/email'):
    print(root, "consumes", end="")
    print(sum([os.stat(name, dir_fd=rootfd).st_size for name in files]),
          end="")
    print("bytes in", len(files), "non-directory files")
    if 'CVS' in dirs:
        dirs.remove('CVS')  # don't visit CVS directories

In the next example, walking the tree bottom-up is essential: rmdir() doesn't allow deleting a directory before the directory is empty:

# Delete everything reachable from the directory named in "top",
# assuming there are no symbolic links.
# CAUTION:  This is dangerous!  For example, if top == '/', it
# could delete all your disk files.
import os
for root, dirs, files, rootfd in os.fwalk(top, topdown=False):
    for name in files:
        os.unlink(name, dir_fd=rootfd)
    for name in dirs:
        os.rmdir(name, dir_fd=rootfd)

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

在 3.7 版更改: Added support for bytes paths.

Linux extended attributes

3.3 新版功能.

These functions are all available on Linux only.

os.getxattr(path, attribute, *, follow_symlinks=True)

Return the value of the extended filesystem attribute attribute for path. attribute can be bytes or str (directly or indirectly through the PathLike interface). If it is str, it is encoded with the filesystem encoding.

This function can support specifying a file descriptor and not following symlinks.

在 3.6 版更改: Accepts a path-like object for path and attribute.

os.listxattr(path=None, *, follow_symlinks=True)

Return a list of the extended filesystem attributes on path. The attributes in the list are represented as strings decoded with the filesystem encoding. If path is None, listxattr() will examine the current directory.

This function can support specifying a file descriptor and not following symlinks.

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.removexattr(path, attribute, *, follow_symlinks=True)

Removes the extended filesystem attribute attribute from path. attribute should be bytes or str (directly or indirectly through the PathLike interface). If it is a string, it is encoded with the filesystem encoding.

This function can support specifying a file descriptor and not following symlinks.

在 3.6 版更改: Accepts a path-like object for path and attribute.

os.setxattr(path, attribute, value, flags=0, *, follow_symlinks=True)

Set the extended filesystem attribute attribute on path to value. attribute must be a bytes or str with no embedded NULs (directly or indirectly through the PathLike interface). If it is a str, it is encoded with the filesystem encoding. flags may be XATTR_REPLACE or XATTR_CREATE. If XATTR_REPLACE is given and the attribute does not exist, EEXISTS will be raised. If XATTR_CREATE is given and the attribute already exists, the attribute will not be created and ENODATA will be raised.

This function can support specifying a file descriptor and not following symlinks.

注解

A bug in Linux kernel versions less than 2.6.39 caused the flags argument to be ignored on some filesystems.

在 3.6 版更改: Accepts a path-like object for path and attribute.

os.XATTR_SIZE_MAX

The maximum size the value of an extended attribute can be. Currently, this is 64 KiB on Linux.

os.XATTR_CREATE

This is a possible value for the flags argument in setxattr(). It indicates the operation must create an attribute.

os.XATTR_REPLACE

This is a possible value for the flags argument in setxattr(). It indicates the operation must replace an existing attribute.

Process Management

These functions may be used to create and manage processes.

The various exec* functions take a list of arguments for the new program loaded into the process. In each case, the first of these arguments is passed to the new program as its own name rather than as an argument a user may have typed on a command line. For the C programmer, this is the argv[0] passed to a program's main(). For example, os.execv('/bin/echo', ['foo', 'bar']) will only print bar on standard output; foo will seem to be ignored.

os.abort()

Generate a SIGABRT signal to the current process. On Unix, the default behavior is to produce a core dump; on Windows, the process immediately returns an exit code of 3. Be aware that calling this function will not call the Python signal handler registered for SIGABRT with signal.signal().

os.execl(path, arg0, arg1, ...)
os.execle(path, arg0, arg1, ..., env)
os.execlp(file, arg0, arg1, ...)
os.execlpe(file, arg0, arg1, ..., env)
os.execv(path, args)
os.execve(path, args, env)
os.execvp(file, args)
os.execvpe(file, args, env)

These functions all execute a new program, replacing the current process; they do not return. On Unix, the new executable is loaded into the current process, and will have the same process id as the caller. Errors will be reported as OSError exceptions.

The current process is replaced immediately. Open file objects and descriptors are not flushed, so if there may be data buffered on these open files, you should flush them using sys.stdout.flush() or os.fsync() before calling an exec* function.

The "l" and "v" variants of the exec* functions differ in how command-line arguments are passed. The "l" variants are perhaps the easiest to work with if the number of parameters is fixed when the code is written; the individual parameters simply become additional parameters to the execl*() functions. The "v" variants are good when the number of parameters is variable, with the arguments being passed in a list or tuple as the args parameter. In either case, the arguments to the child process should start with the name of the command being run, but this is not enforced.

The variants which include a "p" near the end (execlp(), execlpe(), execvp(), and execvpe()) will use the PATH environment variable to locate the program file. When the environment is being replaced (using one of the exec*e variants, discussed in the next paragraph), the new environment is used as the source of the PATH variable. The other variants, execl(), execle(), execv(), and execve(), will not use the PATH variable to locate the executable; path must contain an appropriate absolute or relative path.

For execle(), execlpe(), execve(), and execvpe() (note that these all end in "e"), the env parameter must be a mapping which is used to define the environment variables for the new process (these are used instead of the current process' environment); the functions execl(), execlp(), execv(), and execvp() all cause the new process to inherit the environment of the current process.

For execve() on some platforms, path may also be specified as an open file descriptor. This functionality may not be supported on your platform; you can check whether or not it is available using os.supports_fd. If it is unavailable, using it will raise a NotImplementedError.

可用性: Unix, Windows。

3.3 新版功能: Added support for specifying an open file descriptor for path for execve().

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os._exit(n)

Exit the process with status n, without calling cleanup handlers, flushing stdio buffers, etc.

注解

The standard way to exit is sys.exit(n). _exit() should normally only be used in the child process after a fork().

The following exit codes are defined and can be used with _exit(), although they are not required. These are typically used for system programs written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program.

注解

Some of these may not be available on all Unix platforms, since there is some variation. These constants are defined where they are defined by the underlying platform.

os.EX_OK

Exit code that means no error occurred.

可用性: Unix。

os.EX_USAGE

Exit code that means the command was used incorrectly, such as when the wrong number of arguments are given.

可用性: Unix。

os.EX_DATAERR

Exit code that means the input data was incorrect.

可用性: Unix。

os.EX_NOINPUT

Exit code that means an input file did not exist or was not readable.

可用性: Unix。

os.EX_NOUSER

Exit code that means a specified user did not exist.

可用性: Unix。

os.EX_NOHOST

Exit code that means a specified host did not exist.

可用性: Unix。

os.EX_UNAVAILABLE

Exit code that means that a required service is unavailable.

可用性: Unix。

os.EX_SOFTWARE

Exit code that means an internal software error was detected.

可用性: Unix。

os.EX_OSERR

Exit code that means an operating system error was detected, such as the inability to fork or create a pipe.

可用性: Unix。

os.EX_OSFILE

Exit code that means some system file did not exist, could not be opened, or had some other kind of error.

可用性: Unix。

os.EX_CANTCREAT

Exit code that means a user specified output file could not be created.

可用性: Unix。

os.EX_IOERR

Exit code that means that an error occurred while doing I/O on some file.

可用性: Unix。

os.EX_TEMPFAIL

Exit code that means a temporary failure occurred. This indicates something that may not really be an error, such as a network connection that couldn't be made during a retryable operation.

可用性: Unix。

os.EX_PROTOCOL

Exit code that means that a protocol exchange was illegal, invalid, or not understood.

可用性: Unix。

os.EX_NOPERM

Exit code that means that there were insufficient permissions to perform the operation (but not intended for file system problems).

可用性: Unix。

os.EX_CONFIG

Exit code that means that some kind of configuration error occurred.

可用性: Unix。

os.EX_NOTFOUND

Exit code that means something like "an entry was not found".

可用性: Unix。

os.fork()

Fork a child process. Return 0 in the child and the child's process id in the parent. If an error occurs OSError is raised.

Note that some platforms including FreeBSD <= 6.3 and Cygwin have known issues when using fork() from a thread.

警告

See ssl for applications that use the SSL module with fork().

可用性: Unix。

os.forkpty()

Fork a child process, using a new pseudo-terminal as the child's controlling terminal. Return a pair of (pid, fd), where pid is 0 in the child, the new child's process id in the parent, and fd is the file descriptor of the master end of the pseudo-terminal. For a more portable approach, use the pty module. If an error occurs OSError is raised.

可用性: 某些 Unix。

os.kill(pid, sig)

Send signal sig to the process pid. Constants for the specific signals available on the host platform are defined in the signal module.

Windows: The signal.CTRL_C_EVENT and signal.CTRL_BREAK_EVENT signals are special signals which can only be sent to console processes which share a common console window, e.g., some subprocesses. Any other value for sig will cause the process to be unconditionally killed by the TerminateProcess API, and the exit code will be set to sig. The Windows version of kill() additionally takes process handles to be killed.

See also signal.pthread_kill().

3.2 新版功能: Windows support.

os.killpg(pgid, sig)

Send the signal sig to the process group pgid.

可用性: Unix。

os.nice(increment)

Add increment to the process's "niceness". Return the new niceness.

可用性: Unix。

os.plock(op)

Lock program segments into memory. The value of op (defined in <sys/lock.h>) determines which segments are locked.

可用性: Unix。

os.popen(cmd, mode='r', buffering=-1)

Open a pipe to or from command cmd. The return value is an open file object connected to the pipe, which can be read or written depending on whether mode is 'r' (default) or 'w'. The buffering argument has the same meaning as the corresponding argument to the built-in open() function. The returned file object reads or writes text strings rather than bytes.

The close method returns None if the subprocess exited successfully, or the subprocess's return code if there was an error. On POSIX systems, if the return code is positive it represents the return value of the process left-shifted by one byte. If the return code is negative, the process was terminated by the signal given by the negated value of the return code. (For example, the return value might be - signal.SIGKILL if the subprocess was killed.) On Windows systems, the return value contains the signed integer return code from the child process.

This is implemented using subprocess.Popen; see that class's documentation for more powerful ways to manage and communicate with subprocesses.

os.register_at_fork(*, before=None, after_in_parent=None, after_in_child=None)

Register callables to be executed when a new child process is forked using os.fork() or similar process cloning APIs. The parameters are optional and keyword-only. Each specifies a different call point.

  • before is a function called before forking a child process.
  • after_in_parent is a function called from the parent process after forking a child process.
  • after_in_child is a function called from the child process.

These calls are only made if control is expected to return to the Python interpreter. A typical subprocess launch will not trigger them as the child is not going to re-enter the interpreter.

Functions registered for execution before forking are called in reverse registration order. Functions registered for execution after forking (either in the parent or in the child) are called in registration order.

Note that fork() calls made by third-party C code may not call those functions, unless it explicitly calls PyOS_BeforeFork(), PyOS_AfterFork_Parent() and PyOS_AfterFork_Child().

There is no way to unregister a function.

可用性: Unix。

3.7 新版功能.

os.spawnl(mode, path, ...)
os.spawnle(mode, path, ..., env)
os.spawnlp(mode, file, ...)
os.spawnlpe(mode, file, ..., env)
os.spawnv(mode, path, args)
os.spawnve(mode, path, args, env)
os.spawnvp(mode, file, args)
os.spawnvpe(mode, file, args, env)

Execute the program path in a new process.

(Note that the subprocess module provides more powerful facilities for spawning new processes and retrieving their results; using that module is preferable to using these functions. Check especially the Replacing Older Functions with the subprocess Module section.)

If mode is P_NOWAIT, this function returns the process id of the new process; if mode is P_WAIT, returns the process's exit code if it exits normally, or -signal, where signal is the signal that killed the process. On Windows, the process id will actually be the process handle, so can be used with the waitpid() function.

The "l" and "v" variants of the spawn* functions differ in how command-line arguments are passed. The "l" variants are perhaps the easiest to work with if the number of parameters is fixed when the code is written; the individual parameters simply become additional parameters to the spawnl*() functions. The "v" variants are good when the number of parameters is variable, with the arguments being passed in a list or tuple as the args parameter. In either case, the arguments to the child process must start with the name of the command being run.

The variants which include a second "p" near the end (spawnlp(), spawnlpe(), spawnvp(), and spawnvpe()) will use the PATH environment variable to locate the program file. When the environment is being replaced (using one of the spawn*e variants, discussed in the next paragraph), the new environment is used as the source of the PATH variable. The other variants, spawnl(), spawnle(), spawnv(), and spawnve(), will not use the PATH variable to locate the executable; path must contain an appropriate absolute or relative path.

For spawnle(), spawnlpe(), spawnve(), and spawnvpe() (note that these all end in "e"), the env parameter must be a mapping which is used to define the environment variables for the new process (they are used instead of the current process' environment); the functions spawnl(), spawnlp(), spawnv(), and spawnvp() all cause the new process to inherit the environment of the current process. Note that keys and values in the env dictionary must be strings; invalid keys or values will cause the function to fail, with a return value of 127.

As an example, the following calls to spawnlp() and spawnvpe() are equivalent:

import os
os.spawnlp(os.P_WAIT, 'cp', 'cp', 'index.html', '/dev/null')

L = ['cp', 'index.html', '/dev/null']
os.spawnvpe(os.P_WAIT, 'cp', L, os.environ)

Availability: Unix, Windows. spawnlp(), spawnlpe(), spawnvp() and spawnvpe() are not available on Windows. spawnle() and spawnve() are not thread-safe on Windows; we advise you to use the subprocess module instead.

在 3.6 版更改: 接受一个 类路径对象。

os.P_NOWAIT
os.P_NOWAITO

Possible values for the mode parameter to the spawn* family of functions. If either of these values is given, the spawn*() functions will return as soon as the new process has been created, with the process id as the return value.

可用性: Unix, Windows。

os.P_WAIT

Possible value for the mode parameter to the spawn* family of functions. If this is given as mode, the spawn*() functions will not return until the new process has run to completion and will return the exit code of the process the run is successful, or -signal if a signal kills the process.

可用性: Unix, Windows。

os.P_DETACH
os.P_OVERLAY

Possible values for the mode parameter to the spawn* family of functions. These are less portable than those listed above. P_DETACH is similar to P_NOWAIT, but the new process is detached from the console of the calling process. If P_OVERLAY is used, the current process will be replaced; the spawn* function will not return.

可用性: Windows。

os.startfile(path[, operation])

Start a file with its associated application.

When operation is not specified or 'open', this acts like double-clicking the file in Windows Explorer, or giving the file name as an argument to the start command from the interactive command shell: the file is opened with whatever application (if any) its extension is associated.

When another operation is given, it must be a "command verb" that specifies what should be done with the file. Common verbs documented by Microsoft are 'print' and 'edit' (to be used on files) as well as 'explore' and 'find' (to be used on directories).

startfile() returns as soon as the associated application is launched. There is no option to wait for the application to close, and no way to retrieve the application's exit status. The path parameter is relative to the current directory. If you want to use an absolute path, make sure the first character is not a slash ('/'); the underlying Win32 ShellExecute() function doesn't work if it is. Use the os.path.normpath() function to ensure that the path is properly encoded for Win32.

To reduce interpreter startup overhead, the Win32 ShellExecute() function is not resolved until this function is first called. If the function cannot be resolved, NotImplementedError will be raised.

可用性: Windows。

os.system(command)

Execute the command (a string) in a subshell. This is implemented by calling the Standard C function system(), and has the same limitations. Changes to sys.stdin, etc. are not reflected in the environment of the executed command. If command generates any output, it will be sent to the interpreter standard output stream.

On Unix, the return value is the exit status of the process encoded in the format specified for wait(). Note that POSIX does not specify the meaning of the return value of the C system() function, so the return value of the Python function is system-dependent.

On Windows, the return value is that returned by the system shell after running command. The shell is given by the Windows environment variable COMSPEC: it is usually cmd.exe, which returns the exit status of the command run; on systems using a non-native shell, consult your shell documentation.

The subprocess module provides more powerful facilities for spawning new processes and retrieving their results; using that module is preferable to using this function. See the Replacing Older Functions with the subprocess Module section in the subprocess documentation for some helpful recipes.

可用性: Unix, Windows。

os.times()

Returns the current global process times. The return value is an object with five attributes:

  • user - user time
  • system - system time
  • children_user - user time of all child processes
  • children_system - system time of all child processes
  • elapsed - elapsed real time since a fixed point in the past

For backwards compatibility, this object also behaves like a five-tuple containing user, system, children_user, children_system, and elapsed in that order.

See the Unix manual page times(2) or the corresponding Windows Platform API documentation. On Windows, only user and system are known; the other attributes are zero.

可用性: Unix, Windows。

在 3.3 版更改: 返回结果的类型由元组变成一个类似元组的对象，同时具有命名的属性。

os.wait()

Wait for completion of a child process, and return a tuple containing its pid and exit status indication: a 16-bit number, whose low byte is the signal number that killed the process, and whose high byte is the exit status (if the signal number is zero); the high bit of the low byte is set if a core file was produced.

可用性: Unix。

os.waitid(idtype, id, options)

Wait for the completion of one or more child processes. idtype can be P_PID, P_PGID or P_ALL. id specifies the pid to wait on. options is constructed from the ORing of one or more of WEXITED, WSTOPPED or WCONTINUED and additionally may be ORed with WNOHANG or WNOWAIT. The return value is an object representing the data contained in the siginfo_t structure, namely: si_pid, si_uid, si_signo, si_status, si_code or None if WNOHANG is specified and there are no children in a waitable state.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.P_PID
os.P_PGID
os.P_ALL

These are the possible values for idtype in waitid(). They affect how id is interpreted.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.WEXITED
os.WSTOPPED
os.WNOWAIT

Flags that can be used in options in waitid() that specify what child signal to wait for.

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.CLD_EXITED
os.CLD_DUMPED
os.CLD_TRAPPED
os.CLD_CONTINUED

These are the possible values for si_code in the result returned by waitid().

可用性: Unix。

3.3 新版功能.

os.waitpid(pid, options)

The details of this function differ on Unix and Windows.

On Unix: Wait for completion of a child process given by process id pid, and return a tuple containing its process id and exit status indication (encoded as for wait()). The semantics of the call are affected by the value of the integer options, which should be 0 for normal operation.

If pid is greater than 0, waitpid() requests status information for that specific process. If pid is 0, the request is for the status of any child in the process group of the current process. If pid is -1, the request pertains to any child of the current process. If pid is less than -1, status is requested for any process in the process group -pid (the absolute value of pid).

An OSError is raised with the value of errno when the syscall returns -1.

On Windows: Wait for completion of a process given by process handle pid, and return a tuple containing pid, and its exit status shifted left by 8 bits (shifting makes cross-platform use of the function easier). A pid less than or equal to 0 has no special meaning on Windows, and raises an exception. The value of integer options has no effect. pid can refer to any process whose id is known, not necessarily a child process. The spawn* functions called with P_NOWAIT return suitable process handles.

在 3.5 版更改: 如果系统调用被中断，但信号处理程序没有触发异常，此函数现在会重试系统调用，而不是触发 InterruptedError 异常 (原因详见 PEP 475)。

os.wait3(options)

Similar to waitpid(), except no process id argument is given and a 3-element tuple containing the child's process id, exit status indication, and resource usage information is returned. Refer to resource.getrusage() for details on resource usage information. The option argument is the same as that provided to waitpid() and wait4().

可用性: Unix。

os.wait4(pid, options)

Similar to waitpid(), except a 3-element tuple, containing the child's process id, exit status indication, and resource usage information is returned. Refer to resource.getrusage() for details on resource usage information. The arguments to wait4() are the same as those provided to waitpid().

可用性: Unix。

os.WNOHANG

The option for waitpid() to return immediately if no child process status is available immediately. The function returns (0, 0) in this case.

可用性: Unix。

os.WCONTINUED

This option causes child processes to be reported if they have been continued from a job control stop since their status was last reported.

可用性: 部分 Unix 系统。

os.WUNTRACED

This option causes child processes to be reported if they have been stopped but their current state has not been reported since they were stopped.

可用性: Unix。

The following functions take a process status code as returned by system(), wait(), or waitpid() as a parameter. They may be used to determine the disposition of a process.

os.WCOREDUMP(status)

Return True if a core dump was generated for the process, otherwise return False.

可用性: Unix。

os.WIFCONTINUED(status)

Return True if the process has been continued from a job control stop, otherwise return False.

可用性: Unix。

os.WIFSTOPPED(status)

Return True if the process has been stopped, otherwise return False.

可用性: Unix。

os.WIFSIGNALED(status)

Return True if the process exited due to a signal, otherwise return False.

可用性: Unix。

os.WIFEXITED(status)

Return True if the process exited using the exit(2) system call, otherwise return False.

可用性: Unix。

os.WEXITSTATUS(status)

If WIFEXITED(status) is true, return the integer parameter to the exit(2) system call. Otherwise, the return value is meaningless.

可用性: Unix。

os.WSTOPSIG(status)

Return the signal which caused the process to stop.

可用性: Unix。

os.WTERMSIG(status)

Return the signal which caused the process to exit.

可用性: Unix。

Interface to the scheduler

These functions control how a process is allocated CPU time by the operating system. They are only available on some Unix platforms. For more detailed information, consult your Unix manpages.

3.3 新版功能.

The following scheduling policies are exposed if they are supported by the operating system.

os.SCHED_OTHER

The default scheduling policy.

os.SCHED_BATCH

Scheduling policy for CPU-intensive processes that tries to preserve interactivity on the rest of the computer.

os.SCHED_IDLE

Scheduling policy for extremely low priority background tasks.

os.SCHED_SPORADIC

Scheduling policy for sporadic server programs.

os.SCHED_FIFO

A First In First Out scheduling policy.

os.SCHED_RR

A round-robin scheduling policy.

os.SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK

This flag can be OR'ed with any other scheduling policy. When a process with this flag set forks, its child's scheduling policy and priority are reset to the default.

class os.sched_param(sched_priority)

This class represents tunable scheduling parameters used in sched_setparam(), sched_setscheduler(), and sched_getparam(). It is immutable.

At the moment, there is only one possible parameter:

sched_priority

The scheduling priority for a scheduling policy.

os.sched_get_priority_min(policy)

Get the minimum priority value for policy. policy is one of the scheduling policy constants above.

os.sched_get_priority_max(policy)

Get the maximum priority value for policy. policy is one of the scheduling policy constants above.

os.sched_setscheduler(pid, policy, param)

Set the scheduling policy for the process with PID pid. A pid of 0 means the calling process. policy is one of the scheduling policy constants above. param is a sched_param instance.

os.sched_getscheduler(pid)

Return the scheduling policy for the process with PID pid. A pid of 0 means the calling process. The result is one of the scheduling policy constants above.

os.sched_setparam(pid, param)

Set a scheduling parameters for the process with PID pid. A pid of 0 means the calling process. param is a sched_param instance.

os.sched_getparam(pid)

Return the scheduling parameters as a sched_param instance for the process with PID pid. A pid of 0 means the calling process.

os.sched_rr_get_interval(pid)

Return the round-robin quantum in seconds for the process with PID pid. A pid of 0 means the calling process.

os.sched_yield()

Voluntarily relinquish the CPU.

os.sched_setaffinity(pid, mask)

Restrict the process with PID pid (or the current process if zero) to a set of CPUs. mask is an iterable of integers representing the set of CPUs to which the process should be restricted.

os.sched_getaffinity(pid)

Return the set of CPUs the process with PID pid (or the current process if zero) is restricted to.

Miscellaneous System Information

os.confstr(name)

Return string-valued system configuration values. name specifies the configuration value to retrieve; it may be a string which is the name of a defined system value; these names are specified in a number of standards (POSIX, Unix 95, Unix 98, and others). Some platforms define additional names as well. The names known to the host operating system are given as the keys of the confstr_names dictionary. For configuration variables not included in that mapping, passing an integer for name is also accepted.

If the configuration value specified by name isn't defined, None is returned.

If name is a string and is not known, ValueError is raised. If a specific value for name is not supported by the host system, even if it is included in confstr_names, an OSError is raised with errno.EINVAL for the error number.

可用性: Unix。

os.confstr_names

Dictionary mapping names accepted by confstr() to the integer values defined for those names by the host operating system. This can be used to determine the set of names known to the system.

可用性: Unix。

os.cpu_count()

Return the number of CPUs in the system. Returns None if undetermined.

该数量不同于当前进程可以使用的CPU数量。可用的CPU数量可以由 len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)) 方法获得。

3.4 新版功能.

os.getloadavg()

Return the number of processes in the system run queue averaged over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes or raises OSError if the load average was unobtainable.

可用性: Unix。

os.sysconf(name)

Return integer-valued system configuration values. If the configuration value specified by name isn't defined, -1 is returned. The comments regarding the name parameter for confstr() apply here as well; the dictionary that provides information on the known names is given by sysconf_names.

可用性: Unix。

os.sysconf_names

Dictionary mapping names accepted by sysconf() to the integer values defined for those names by the host operating system. This can be used to determine the set of names known to the system.

可用性: Unix。

The following data values are used to support path manipulation operations. These are defined for all platforms.

Higher-level operations on pathnames are defined in the os.path module.

os.curdir

The constant string used by the operating system to refer to the current directory. This is '.' for Windows and POSIX. Also available via os.path.

os.pardir

The constant string used by the operating system to refer to the parent directory. This is '..' for Windows and POSIX. Also available via os.path.

os.sep

The character used by the operating system to separate pathname components. This is '/' for POSIX and '\\' for Windows. Note that knowing this is not sufficient to be able to parse or concatenate pathnames --- use os.path.split() and os.path.join() --- but it is occasionally useful. Also available via os.path.

os.altsep

An alternative character used by the operating system to separate pathname components, or None if only one separator character exists. This is set to '/' on Windows systems where sep is a backslash. Also available via os.path.

os.extsep

The character which separates the base filename from the extension; for example, the '.' in os.py. Also available via os.path.

os.pathsep

The character conventionally used by the operating system to separate search path components (as in PATH), such as ':' for POSIX or ';' for Windows. Also available via os.path.

os.defpath

The default search path used by exec*p* and spawn*p* if the environment doesn't have a 'PATH' key. Also available via os.path.

os.linesep

The string used to separate (or, rather, terminate) lines on the current platform. This may be a single character, such as '\n' for POSIX, or multiple characters, for example, '\r\n' for Windows. Do not use os.linesep as a line terminator when writing files opened in text mode (the default); use a single '\n' instead, on all platforms.

os.devnull

The file path of the null device. For example: '/dev/null' for POSIX, 'nul' for Windows. Also available via os.path.

os.RTLD_LAZY
os.RTLD_NOW
os.RTLD_GLOBAL
os.RTLD_LOCAL
os.RTLD_NODELETE
os.RTLD_NOLOAD
os.RTLD_DEEPBIND

Flags for use with the setdlopenflags() and getdlopenflags() functions. See the Unix manual page dlopen(3) for what the different flags mean.

3.3 新版功能.

Random numbers

os.getrandom(size, flags=0)

Get up to size random bytes. The function can return less bytes than requested.

These bytes can be used to seed user-space random number generators or for cryptographic purposes.

getrandom() relies on entropy gathered from device drivers and other sources of environmental noise. Unnecessarily reading large quantities of data will have a negative impact on other users of the /dev/random and /dev/urandom devices.

The flags argument is a bit mask that can contain zero or more of the following values ORed together: os.GRND_RANDOM and GRND_NONBLOCK.

See also the Linux getrandom() manual page.

Availability: Linux 3.17 and newer.

3.6 新版功能.

os.urandom(size)

Return a string of size random bytes suitable for cryptographic use.

This function returns random bytes from an OS-specific randomness source. The returned data should be unpredictable enough for cryptographic applications, though its exact quality depends on the OS implementation.

On Linux, if the getrandom() syscall is available, it is used in blocking mode: block until the system urandom entropy pool is initialized (128 bits of entropy are collected by the kernel). See the PEP 524 for the rationale. On Linux, the getrandom() function can be used to get random bytes in non-blocking mode (using the GRND_NONBLOCK flag) or to poll until the system urandom entropy pool is initialized.

On a Unix-like system, random bytes are read from the /dev/urandom device. If the /dev/urandom device is not available or not readable, the NotImplementedError exception is raised.

On Windows, it will use CryptGenRandom().

参见

The secrets module provides higher level functions. For an easy-to-use interface to the random number generator provided by your platform, please see random.SystemRandom.

在 3.6.0 版更改: On Linux, getrandom() is now used in blocking mode to increase the security.

在 3.5.2 版更改: On Linux, if the getrandom() syscall blocks (the urandom entropy pool is not initialized yet), fall back on reading /dev/urandom.

在 3.5 版更改: On Linux 3.17 and newer, the getrandom() syscall is now used when available. On OpenBSD 5.6 and newer, the C getentropy() function is now used. These functions avoid the usage of an internal file descriptor.

os.GRND_NONBLOCK

By default, when reading from /dev/random, getrandom() blocks if no random bytes are available, and when reading from /dev/urandom, it blocks if the entropy pool has not yet been initialized.

If the GRND_NONBLOCK flag is set, then getrandom() does not block in these cases, but instead immediately raises BlockingIOError.

3.6 新版功能.

os.GRND_RANDOM

If this bit is set, then random bytes are drawn from the /dev/random pool instead of the /dev/urandom pool.

3.6 新版功能.