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With third party modules

The original path module is not easy to use. It's difficult to remember how to use it. But pypath from Jasen Orenberg could be a good replacement for it. So this module has been adapted to Python S60.

Here's an example code snippet for erasing all compiled files in python folder :

# with pypath
 
d = path('c:\\python')
for f in d.walkfiles('*.pyc'):
    f.remove()

With built-in methods

To see a list of files in a directory using the default modules and methods, we do something like this:

import os, codecs
 
folder="C:\\Python"
for f in os.listdir(folder):
    print f
    #Or, we can also see which files have a certain beginning or end:
    if(f.startswith('a')):print f
    if(f.endswith('.mp3')):print f

To get the list of available drives:

from e32 import *
 
print drive_list()   #Returns a list of the drives as unicode, [u'C:', u'D:', u'E:', u'Z:']

To copy a file, the function file_copy(target_name, source_name) is used, where the names must be full paths. For example:

from e32 import *
 
file_copy("C:\\Data\\file.txt","E:\\file.txt")

!!Renaming or deleting some files and/or folders may make the device unstable. Use these functions with care.

To delete a file we use the remove(path) function.

import os
 
os.remove("C:\\Python\\ball.py")

To rename a file or directory:

import os
 
os.rename("C:\\Python\\ball.py", "C:\\Python\\roundObject.py")
os.rename("C:\\Data\\Images", "C:\\Data\\Graphics")

To create a folder:

import os
 
os.mkdir("C:\\Myfolder")

To delete a folder:

import os
 
os.rmdir("C:\\Myfolder")