fs.base¶
PyFilesystem base class.
The filesystem base class is common to all filesystems. If you familiarize yourself with this (rather straightforward) API, you can work with any of the supported filesystems.
- class fs.base.FS[source]¶
Base class for FS objects.
- __enter__() fs.base.FS [source]¶
Allow use of filesystem as a context manager.
- __exit__(exc_type: Optional[Type[BaseException]], exc_value: Optional[BaseException], traceback: Optional[TracebackType]) None [source]¶
Close filesystem on exit.
- appendbytes(path: Text, data: bytes) None [source]¶
Append bytes to the end of a file, creating it if needed.
- Parameters:
- Raises:
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If a parent directory of
path
does not exist.
- appendtext(path: Text, text: Text, encoding: Text = 'utf-8', errors: Optional[Text] = None, newline: Text = '') None [source]¶
Append text to the end of a file, creating it if needed.
- Parameters:
- Raises:
TypeError – if
text
is not an unicode string.fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – if a parent directory of
path
does not exist.
- check() None [source]¶
Check if a filesystem may be used.
- Raises:
fs.errors.FilesystemClosed – if the filesystem is closed.
- close() None [source]¶
Close the filesystem and release any resources.
It is important to call this method when you have finished working with the filesystem. Some filesystems may not finalize changes until they are closed (archives for example). You may call this method explicitly (it is safe to call close multiple times), or you can use the filesystem as a context manager to automatically close.
Example
>>> with OSFS('~/Desktop') as desktop_fs: ... desktop_fs.writetext( ... 'note.txt', ... "Don't forget to tape Game of Thrones" ... )
If you attempt to use a filesystem that has been closed, a
FilesystemClosed
exception will be thrown.
- copy(src_path: Text, dst_path: Text, overwrite: bool = False, preserve_time: bool = False) None [source]¶
Copy file contents from
src_path
todst_path
.- Parameters:
- Raises:
fs.errors.DestinationExists – If
dst_path
exists, andoverwrite
isFalse
.fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If a parent directory of
dst_path
does not exist.fs.errors.FileExpected – If
src_path
is not a file.
- copydir(src_path: Text, dst_path: Text, create: bool = False, preserve_time: bool = False) None [source]¶
Copy the contents of
src_path
todst_path
.- Parameters:
- Raises:
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If the
dst_path
does not exist, andcreate
is notTrue
.fs.errors.DirectoryExpected – If
src_path
is not a directory.
- create(path: Text, wipe: bool = False) bool [source]¶
Create an empty file.
The default behavior is to create a new file if one doesn’t already exist. If
wipe
isTrue
, any existing file will be truncated.
- desc(path: Text) Text [source]¶
Return a short descriptive text regarding a path.
- Parameters:
path (str) – A path to a resource on the filesystem.
- Returns:
a short description of the path.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If
path
does not exist.
- download(path: Text, file: BinaryIO, chunk_size: Optional[int] = None, **options: Any) None [source]¶
Copy a file from the filesystem to a file-like object.
This may be more efficient that opening and copying files manually if the filesystem supplies an optimized method.
Note that the file object
file
will not be closed by this method. Take care to close it after this method completes (ideally with a context manager).- Parameters:
path (str) – Path to a resource.
file (file-like) – A file-like object open for writing in binary mode.
chunk_size (int, optional) – Number of bytes to read at a time, if a simple copy is used, or
None
to use sensible default.**options – Implementation specific options required to open the source file.
Example
>>> with open('starwars.mov', 'wb') as write_file: ... my_fs.download('/Videos/starwars.mov', write_file)
- Raises:
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – if
path
does not exist.
- filterdir(path: Text, files: Optional[Iterable[Text]] = None, dirs: Optional[Iterable[Text]] = None, exclude_dirs: Optional[Iterable[Text]] = None, exclude_files: Optional[Iterable[Text]] = None, namespaces: Optional[Collection[Text]] = None, page: Optional[Tuple[int, int]] = None) Iterator[Info] [source]¶
Get an iterator of resource info, filtered by patterns.
This method enhances
scandir
with additional filtering functionality.- Parameters:
path (str) – A path to a directory on the filesystem.
files (list, optional) – A list of UNIX shell-style patterns to filter file names, e.g.
['*.py']
.dirs (list, optional) – A list of UNIX shell-style patterns to filter directory names.
exclude_dirs (list, optional) – A list of patterns used to exclude directories.
exclude_files (list, optional) – A list of patterns used to exclude files.
namespaces (list, optional) – A list of namespaces to include in the resource information, e.g.
['basic', 'access']
.page (tuple, optional) – May be a tuple of
(<start>, <end>)
indexes to return an iterator of a subset of the resource info, orNone
to iterate over the entire directory. Paging a directory scan may be necessary for very large directories.
- Returns:
an iterator of
Info
objects.- Return type:
- getbasic(path: Text) Info [source]¶
Get the basic resource info.
This method is shorthand for the following:
fs.getinfo(path, namespaces=['basic'])
- Parameters:
path (str) – A path on the filesystem.
- Returns:
Resource information object for
path
.- Return type:
Note
Deprecated since version 2.4.13: Please use
getinfo
directly, which is required to always return the basic namespace.
- getbytes(path: Text) bytes ¶
Get the contents of a file as bytes.
- Parameters:
path (str) – A path to a readable file on the filesystem.
- Returns:
the file contents.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.FileExpected – if
path
exists but is not a file.fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – if
path
does not exist.
Note
Deprecated since version 2.2.0: Please use
readbytes
- getdetails(path: Text) Info [source]¶
Get the details resource info.
This method is shorthand for the following:
fs.getinfo(path, namespaces=['details'])
- getfile(path: Text, file: BinaryIO, chunk_size: Optional[int] = None, **options: Any) None ¶
Copy a file from the filesystem to a file-like object.
This may be more efficient that opening and copying files manually if the filesystem supplies an optimized method.
Note that the file object
file
will not be closed by this method. Take care to close it after this method completes (ideally with a context manager).- Parameters:
path (str) – Path to a resource.
file (file-like) – A file-like object open for writing in binary mode.
chunk_size (int, optional) – Number of bytes to read at a time, if a simple copy is used, or
None
to use sensible default.**options – Implementation specific options required to open the source file.
Example
>>> with open('starwars.mov', 'wb') as write_file: ... my_fs.download('/Videos/starwars.mov', write_file)
- Raises:
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – if
path
does not exist.
Note
Deprecated since version 2.2.0: Please use
download
- abstract getinfo(path: Text, namespaces: Optional[Collection[Text]] = None) Info [source]¶
Get information about a resource on a filesystem.
- Parameters:
- Returns:
resource information object.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If
path
does not exist.
For more information regarding resource information, see Resource Info.
- getmeta(namespace: Text = 'standard') Mapping[Text, object] [source]¶
Get meta information regarding a filesystem.
- Parameters:
namespace (str) – The meta namespace (defaults to
"standard"
).- Returns:
the meta information.
- Return type:
Meta information is associated with a namespace which may be specified with the
namespace
parameter. The default namespace,"standard"
, contains common information regarding the filesystem’s capabilities. Some filesystems may provide other namespaces which expose less common or implementation specific information. If a requested namespace is not supported by a filesystem, then an empty dictionary will be returned.The
"standard"
namespace supports the following keys:key
Description
case_insensitive
True
if this filesystem is case insensitive.invalid_path_chars
A string containing the characters that may not be used on this filesystem.
max_path_length
Maximum number of characters permitted in a path, or
None
for no limit.max_sys_path_length
Maximum number of characters permitted in a sys path, or
None
for no limit.network
True
if this filesystem requires a network.read_only
True
if this filesystem is read only.supports_rename
Most builtin filesystems will provide all these keys, and third- party filesystems should do so whenever possible, but a key may not be present if there is no way to know the value.
Note
Meta information is constant for the lifetime of the filesystem, and may be cached.
- getmodified(path: Text) Optional[datetime] [source]¶
Get the timestamp of the last modifying access of a resource.
- Parameters:
path (str) – A path to a resource.
- Returns:
The timestamp of the last modification.
- Return type:
datetime
The modified timestamp of a file is the point in time that the file was last changed. Depending on the file system, it might only have limited accuracy.
- getospath(path: Text) bytes [source]¶
Get the system path to a resource, in the OS’ prefered encoding.
- Parameters:
path (str) – A path on the filesystem.
- Returns:
the system path of the resource, if any.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.NoSysPath – If there is no corresponding system path.
This method takes the output of
getsyspath
and encodes it to the filesystem’s prefered encoding. In Python3 this step is not required, as theos
module will do it automatically. In Python2.7, the encoding step is required to support filenames on the filesystem that don’t encode correctly.Note
If you want your code to work in Python2.7 and Python3 then use this method if you want to work with the OS filesystem outside of the OSFS interface.
- getsize(path: Text) int [source]¶
Get the size (in bytes) of a resource.
- Parameters:
path (str) – A path to a resource.
- Returns:
the size of the resource.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – if
path
does not exist.
The size of a file is the total number of readable bytes, which may not reflect the exact number of bytes of reserved disk space (or other storage medium).
The size of a directory is the number of bytes of overhead use to store the directory entry.
- getsyspath(path: Text) Text [source]¶
Get the system path of a resource.
- Parameters:
path (str) – A path on the filesystem.
- Returns:
the system path of the resource, if any.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.NoSysPath – If there is no corresponding system path.
A system path is one recognized by the OS, that may be used outside of PyFilesystem (in an application or a shell for example). This method will get the corresponding system path that would be referenced by
path
.Not all filesystems have associated system paths. Network and memory based filesystems, for example, may not physically store data anywhere the OS knows about. It is also possible for some paths to have a system path, whereas others don’t.
This method will always return a str on Py3.* and unicode on Py2.7. See
getospath
if you need to encode the path as bytes.If
path
doesn’t have a system path, aNoSysPath
exception will be thrown.Note
A filesystem may return a system path even if no resource is referenced by that path – as long as it can be certain what that system path would be.
- gettext(path: Text, encoding: Optional[Text] = None, errors: Optional[Text] = None, newline: Text = '') Text ¶
Get the contents of a file as a string.
- Parameters:
- Returns:
file contents.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If
path
does not exist.
Note
Deprecated since version 2.2.0: Please use
readtext
- gettype(path: Text) ResourceType [source]¶
Get the type of a resource.
- Parameters:
path (str) – A path on the filesystem.
- Returns:
the type of the resource.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – if
path
does not exist.
A type of a resource is an integer that identifies the what the resource references. The standard type integers may be one of the values in the
ResourceType
enumerations.The most common resource types, supported by virtually all filesystems are
directory
(1) andfile
(2), but the following types are also possible:ResourceType
value
unknown
0
directory
1
file
2
character
3
block_special_file
4
fifo
5
socket
6
symlink
7
Standard resource types are positive integers, negative values are reserved for implementation specific resource types.
- geturl(path: Text, purpose: Text = 'download') Text [source]¶
Get the URL to a given resource.
- Parameters:
path (str) – A path on the filesystem
purpose (str) – A short string that indicates which URL to retrieve for the given path (if there is more than one). The default is
'download'
, which should return a URL that serves the file. Other filesystems may support other values forpurpose
: for instance,OSFS
supports'fs'
, which returns a FS URL (see FS URLs).
- Returns:
a URL.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.NoURL – If the path does not map to a URL.
- property glob¶
a globber object..
- Type:
- hash(path: Text, name: Text) Text [source]¶
Get the hash of a file’s contents.
- Parameters:
- Returns:
The hex digest of the hash.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.UnsupportedHash – If the requested hash is not supported.
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If
path
does not exist.fs.errors.FileExpected – If
path
exists but is not a file.
- hasurl(path: Text, purpose: Text = 'download') bool [source]¶
Check if a path has a corresponding URL.
- isempty(path: Text) bool [source]¶
Check if a directory is empty.
A directory is considered empty when it does not contain any file or any directory.
- Parameters:
path (str) – A path to a directory on the filesystem.
- Returns:
True
if the directory is empty.- Return type:
- Raises:
errors.DirectoryExpected – If
path
is not a directory.errors.ResourceNotFound – If
path
does not exist.
- abstract listdir(path: Text) List[Text] [source]¶
Get a list of the resource names in a directory.
This method will return a list of the resources in a directory. A resource is a file, directory, or one of the other types defined in
ResourceType
.- Parameters:
path (str) – A path to a directory on the filesystem
- Returns:
list of names, relative to
path
.- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.DirectoryExpected – If
path
is not a directory.fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If
path
does not exist.
- lock() RLock [source]¶
Get a context manager that locks the filesystem.
Locking a filesystem gives a thread exclusive access to it. Other threads will block until the threads with the lock has left the context manager.
- Returns:
a lock specific to the filesystem instance.
- Return type:
Example
>>> with my_fs.lock(): # May block ... # code here has exclusive access to the filesystem ... pass
It is a good idea to put a lock around any operations that you would like to be atomic. For instance if you are copying files, and you don’t want another thread to delete or modify anything while the copy is in progress.
Locking with this method is only required for code that calls multiple filesystem methods. Individual methods are thread safe already, and don’t need to be locked.
Note
This only locks at the Python level. There is nothing to prevent other processes from modifying the filesystem outside of the filesystem instance.
- abstract makedir(path: Text, permissions: Optional[Permissions] = None, recreate: bool = False) SubFS[FS] [source]¶
Make a directory.
- Parameters:
- Returns:
a filesystem whose root is the new directory.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.DirectoryExists – If the path already exists.
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If the path is not found.
- makedirs(path: Text, permissions: Optional[Permissions] = None, recreate: bool = False) SubFS[FS] [source]¶
Make a directory, and any missing intermediate directories.
- Parameters:
- Returns:
A sub-directory filesystem.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.DirectoryExists – if the path is already a directory, and
recreate
isFalse
.fs.errors.DirectoryExpected – if one of the ancestors in the path is not a directory.
- match(patterns: Optional[Iterable[Text]], name: Text) bool [source]¶
Check if a name matches any of a list of wildcards.
If a filesystem is case insensitive (such as Windows) then this method will perform a case insensitive match (i.e.
*.py
will match the same names as*.PY
). Otherwise the match will be case sensitive (*.py
and*.PY
will match different names).- Parameters:
- Returns:
True
ifname
matches any of the patterns.- Return type:
- Raises:
TypeError – If
patterns
is a single string instead of a list (orNone
).
Example
>>> my_fs.match(['*.py'], '__init__.py') True >>> my_fs.match(['*.jpg', '*.png'], 'foo.gif') False
- move(src_path: Text, dst_path: Text, overwrite: bool = False, preserve_time: bool = False) None [source]¶
Move a file from
src_path
todst_path
.- Parameters:
src_path (str) – A path on the filesystem to move.
dst_path (str) – A path on the filesystem where the source file will be written to.
overwrite (bool) – If
True
, destination path will be overwritten if it exists.preserve_time (bool) – If
True
, try to preserve mtime of the resources (defaults toFalse
).
- Raises:
fs.errors.FileExpected – If
src_path
maps to a directory instead of a file.fs.errors.DestinationExists – If
dst_path
exists, andoverwrite
isFalse
.fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If a parent directory of
dst_path
does not exist.
- movedir(src_path: Text, dst_path: Text, create: bool = False, preserve_time: bool = False) None [source]¶
Move directory
src_path
todst_path
.- Parameters:
src_path (str) – Path of source directory on the filesystem.
dst_path (str) – Path to destination directory.
create (bool) – If
True
, thendst_path
will be created if it doesn’t exist already (defaults toFalse
).preserve_time (bool) – If
True
, try to preserve mtime of the resources (defaults toFalse
).
- Raises:
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – if
dst_path
does not exist, andcreate
isFalse
.fs.errors.DirectoryExpected – if
src_path
or one of its ancestors is not a directory.
- open(path: Text, mode: Text = 'r', buffering: int = - 1, encoding: Optional[Text] = None, errors: Optional[Text] = None, newline: Text = '', **options: Any) IO [source]¶
Open a file.
- Parameters:
path (str) – A path to a file on the filesystem.
mode (str) – Mode to open the file object with (defaults to r).
buffering (int) – Buffering policy (-1 to use default buffering, 0 to disable buffering, 1 to select line buffering, of any positive integer to indicate a buffer size).
encoding (str) – Encoding for text files (defaults to
utf-8
)errors (str, optional) – What to do with unicode decode errors (see
codecs
module for more information).newline (str) – Newline parameter.
**options – keyword arguments for any additional information required by the filesystem (if any).
- Returns:
a file-like object.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.FileExpected – If the path is not a file.
fs.errors.FileExists – If the file exists, and exclusive mode is specified (
x
in the mode).fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If the path does not exist.
- abstract openbin(path: Text, mode: Text = 'r', buffering: int = - 1, **options: Any) BinaryIO [source]¶
Open a binary file-like object.
- Parameters:
path (str) – A path on the filesystem.
mode (str) – Mode to open file (must be a valid non-text mode, defaults to r). Since this method only opens binary files, the
b
in the mode string is implied.buffering (int) – Buffering policy (-1 to use default buffering, 0 to disable buffering, or any positive integer to indicate a buffer size).
**options – keyword arguments for any additional information required by the filesystem (if any).
- Returns:
a file-like object.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.FileExpected – If
path
exists and is not a file.fs.errors.FileExists – If the
path
exists, and exclusive mode is specified (x
in the mode).fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If
path
does not exist andmode
does not imply creating the file, or if any ancestor ofpath
does not exist.
- opendir(path: Text, factory: Optional[_OpendirFactory] = None) SubFS[FS] [source]¶
Get a filesystem object for a sub-directory.
- Parameters:
path (str) – Path to a directory on the filesystem.
factory (callable, optional) – A callable that when invoked with an FS instance and
path
will return a new FS object representing the sub-directory contents. If nofactory
is supplied thensubfs_class
will be used.
- Returns:
A filesystem representing a sub-directory.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If
path
does not exist.fs.errors.DirectoryExpected – If
path
is not a directory.
- readbytes(path: Text) bytes [source]¶
Get the contents of a file as bytes.
- Parameters:
path (str) – A path to a readable file on the filesystem.
- Returns:
the file contents.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.FileExpected – if
path
exists but is not a file.fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – if
path
does not exist.
- readtext(path: Text, encoding: Optional[Text] = None, errors: Optional[Text] = None, newline: Text = '') Text [source]¶
Get the contents of a file as a string.
- Parameters:
- Returns:
file contents.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If
path
does not exist.
- abstract remove(path: Text) None [source]¶
Remove a file from the filesystem.
- Parameters:
path (str) – Path of the file to remove.
- Raises:
fs.errors.FileExpected – If the path is a directory.
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If the path does not exist.
- abstract removedir(path: Text) None [source]¶
Remove a directory from the filesystem.
- Parameters:
path (str) – Path of the directory to remove.
- Raises:
fs.errors.DirectoryNotEmpty – If the directory is not empty ( see
removetree
for a way to remove the directory contents).fs.errors.DirectoryExpected – If the path does not refer to a directory.
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If no resource exists at the given path.
fs.errors.RemoveRootError – If an attempt is made to remove the root directory (i.e.
'/'
)
- removetree(dir_path: Text) None [source]¶
Recursively remove a directory and all its contents.
This method is similar to
removedir
, but will remove the contents of the directory if it is not empty.- Parameters:
dir_path (str) – Path to a directory on the filesystem.
- Raises:
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If
dir_path
does not exist.fs.errors.DirectoryExpected – If
dir_path
is not a directory.
Caution
A filesystem should never delete its root folder, so
FS.removetree("/")
has different semantics: the contents of the root folder will be deleted, but the root will be untouched:>>> home_fs = fs.open_fs("~") >>> home_fs.removetree("/") >>> home_fs.exists("/") True >>> home_fs.isempty("/") True
Combined with
opendir
, this can be used to clear a directory without removing the directory itself:>>> home_fs = fs.open_fs("~") >>> home_fs.opendir("/Videos").removetree("/") >>> home_fs.exists("/Videos") True >>> home_fs.isempty("/Videos") True
- scandir(path: Text, namespaces: Optional[Collection[Text]] = None, page: Optional[Tuple[int, int]] = None) Iterator[Info] [source]¶
Get an iterator of resource info.
- Parameters:
path (str) – A path to a directory on the filesystem.
namespaces (list, optional) – A list of namespaces to include in the resource information, e.g.
['basic', 'access']
.page (tuple, optional) – May be a tuple of
(<start>, <end>)
indexes to return an iterator of a subset of the resource info, orNone
to iterate over the entire directory. Paging a directory scan may be necessary for very large directories.
- Returns:
an iterator of
Info
objects.- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.DirectoryExpected – If
path
is not a directory.fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If
path
does not exist.
- setbinfile(path: Text, file: BinaryIO, chunk_size: Optional[int] = None, **options: Any) None ¶
Set a file to the contents of a binary file object.
This method copies bytes from an open binary file to a file on the filesystem. If the destination exists, it will first be truncated.
- Parameters:
path (str) – A path on the filesystem.
file (io.IOBase) – a file object open for reading in binary mode.
chunk_size (int, optional) – Number of bytes to read at a time, if a simple copy is used, or
None
to use sensible default.**options – Implementation specific options required to open the source file.
- Raises:
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If a parent directory of
path
does not exist.
Note that the file object
file
will not be closed by this method. Take care to close it after this method completes (ideally with a context manager).Example
>>> with open('~/movies/starwars.mov', 'rb') as read_file: ... my_fs.upload('starwars.mov', read_file)
Note
Deprecated since version 2.2.0: Please use
upload
- setbytes(path: Text, contents: bytes) None ¶
Copy binary data to a file.
- Parameters:
- Raises:
TypeError – if contents is not bytes.
Note
Deprecated since version 2.2.0: Please use
writebytes
- setfile(path: Text, file: IO, encoding: Optional[Text] = None, errors: Optional[Text] = None, newline: Text = '') None ¶
Set a file to the contents of a file object.
- Parameters:
This method is similar to
upload
, in that it copies data from a file-like object to a resource on the filesystem, but unlikeupload
, this method also supports creating files in text-mode (if theencoding
argument is supplied).Note that the file object
file
will not be closed by this method. Take care to close it after this method completes (ideally with a context manager).Example
>>> with open('myfile.txt') as read_file: ... my_fs.writefile('myfile.txt', read_file)
Note
Deprecated since version 2.2.0: Please use
writefile
- abstract setinfo(path: Text, info: RawInfo) None [source]¶
Set info on a resource.
This method is the complement to
getinfo
and is used to set info values on a resource.- Parameters:
- Raises:
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If
path
does not exist on the filesystem
The
info
dict should be in the same format as the raw info returned bygetinfo(file).raw
.Example
>>> details_info = {"details": { ... "modified": time.time() ... }} >>> my_fs.setinfo('file.txt', details_info)
- settext(path: Text, contents: Text, encoding: Text = 'utf-8', errors: Optional[Text] = None, newline: Text = '') None ¶
Create or replace a file with text.
- Parameters:
- Raises:
TypeError – if
contents
is not a unicode string.
Note
Deprecated since version 2.2.0: Please use
writetext
- settimes(path: Text, accessed: Optional[datetime] = None, modified: Optional[datetime] = None) None [source]¶
Set the accessed and modified time on a resource.
- touch(path: Text) None [source]¶
Touch a file on the filesystem.
Touching a file means creating a new file if
path
doesn’t exist, or update accessed and modified times if the path does exist. This method is similar to the linux command of the same name.- Parameters:
path (str) – A path to a file on the filesystem.
- tree(**kwargs: Any) None [source]¶
Render a tree view of the filesystem to stdout or a file.
The parameters are passed to
render()
.- Keyword Arguments:
path (str) – The path of the directory to start rendering from (defaults to root folder, i.e.
'/'
).file (io.IOBase) – An open file-like object to render the tree, or
None
for stdout.max_levels (int) – Maximum number of levels to display, or
None
for no maximum.with_color (bool) – Enable terminal color output, or
None
to auto-detect terminal.dirs_first (bool) – Show directories first.
exclude (list) – Option list of directory patterns to exclude from the tree render.
filter (list) – Optional list of files patterns to match in the tree render.
- upload(path: Text, file: BinaryIO, chunk_size: Optional[int] = None, **options: Any) None [source]¶
Set a file to the contents of a binary file object.
This method copies bytes from an open binary file to a file on the filesystem. If the destination exists, it will first be truncated.
- Parameters:
path (str) – A path on the filesystem.
file (io.IOBase) – a file object open for reading in binary mode.
chunk_size (int, optional) – Number of bytes to read at a time, if a simple copy is used, or
None
to use sensible default.**options – Implementation specific options required to open the source file.
- Raises:
fs.errors.ResourceNotFound – If a parent directory of
path
does not exist.
Note that the file object
file
will not be closed by this method. Take care to close it after this method completes (ideally with a context manager).Example
>>> with open('~/movies/starwars.mov', 'rb') as read_file: ... my_fs.upload('starwars.mov', read_file)
- validatepath(path: Text) Text [source]¶
Validate a path, returning a normalized absolute path on sucess.
Many filesystems have restrictions on the format of paths they support. This method will check that
path
is valid on the underlaying storage mechanism and throw aInvalidPath
exception if it is not.- Parameters:
path (str) – A path.
- Returns:
A normalized, absolute path.
- Return type:
- Raises:
fs.errors.InvalidPath – If the path is invalid.
fs.errors.FilesystemClosed – if the filesystem is closed.
fs.errors.InvalidCharsInPath – If the path contains invalid characters.
- property walk¶
a walker bound to this filesystem.
- Type:
- walker_class¶
alias of
fs.walk.Walker
- writefile(path: Text, file: IO, encoding: Optional[Text] = None, errors: Optional[Text] = None, newline: Text = '') None [source]¶
Set a file to the contents of a file object.
- Parameters:
This method is similar to
upload
, in that it copies data from a file-like object to a resource on the filesystem, but unlikeupload
, this method also supports creating files in text-mode (if theencoding
argument is supplied).Note that the file object
file
will not be closed by this method. Take care to close it after this method completes (ideally with a context manager).Example
>>> with open('myfile.txt') as read_file: ... my_fs.writefile('myfile.txt', read_file)