os is a standard Python module, there's no need install it. So import os should always work inside Python, and if it doesn't, the cause is your PYTHONPATH or IDE settings, look at them; don't …

Also note that even if the directory was empty, os.remove would fail again, because the correct function is os.rmdir .

18 Beal 2021 · I am trying to run the following python script named test.py. It contains multiple bash commands which I would like to execute in a Linux terminal (unix). This is the content of …

18 Feabh 2015 · I am trying to understand what is the motivation behind using Python's library functions for executing OS-specific tasks such as creating files/directories, changing file …

In Python 3.4 and above, you can use the object oriented pathlib module interface which includes wrappers for much of the os module. Here is an example of getting the file stats.

Even the documentation for os.system recommends using subprocess instead. On Python 3.4 and earlier, use subprocess.call instead of .run:

15 Aib 2021 · When I need to define a file system path in my script, I use os.path.join to guarantee that the path will be consistent on different file systems: from os import path path_1 = …

for those of you familiar with gnu-coreutils' mv command, python's shutil.move has one edge case where shutil.move function differs. Go here for full write up. In a nutshell, Python's shutil.move …

I need to set some environment variables in the Python script and I want all the other scripts that are called from Python to see the environment variables' set. If I do, …

7 Márta 2023 · os.getenv('key') looks for 'key' in environmental variables. By default key-value pairs that are in .env file are not loaded into environment variables. If you want to load key this way …