A Python file utility for the creation, copying, deletion, moving, and opening of a single file, and aid in the creation of IOTextWrapper objects.
Inspired by the .NET Framework's System.IO.File static class, this Python module provides a class with static methods for the creation, copying, deletion, moving, and opening of a single file, and aids in the creation of IOTextWrapper objects.
Furthermore, it provides more utility methods for enumerating files in directories and transforming the contents of files to Python dictionaries.
The fileutil module aims to adopt an object-oriented approach to file management
in Python and further leverage the open() function by eliminating the use of
literal file operation modes.
It contains 19 public static methods and one "private" static helper method to ensure internal constraints' enforcement.
The class's interface exposes the following static methods:
enumerate: Recursively list directories and pass each file to the callback.append_all_lines: Append lines to a file by using a specified encoding, and then close the file. If the specified file does not exist, this method creates a file, writes the specified lines to the file, and then closes the file.append_all_text: Append the specified string to the file using the specified encoding, creating the file if it does not already exist.openread: Open a TextIOWrapper on the specified path in read mode.openread_binary: Open a TextIOWrapper on the specified path in binary read mode.openwrite_binary: Open an existing file or create a new file for writing in binary mode.read_all_bytes: Open a binary file, read the contents of the file into a byte array, and then close the file.read_all_text: Open a file, read all text in the file with the specified encoding, and then close the file.readlines: Open a file, read all lines of the file with the specified encoding, and then close the file.write_all_bytes: Create a new file, write the specified byte array to the file, and then close the file. If the target file already exists, it is overwritten.write_all_text: Create a new file, write the specified string to the file using the specified encoding, and then close the file. If the target file already exists, it is overwritten.write_all_lines: Create a new file by using the specified encoding, write a collection of strings to the file, and then close the file.delete: Delete the specified file.exists: Determine whether the specified file exists.copy: Copy an existing file to a new file. Overwriting a file of the same name is allowed.move: Move a specified file to a new location, providing the options to specify a new file name and to overwrite the destination file if it already exists.histogram: Open the specified file in read mode, count the occurrence of each word it contains, and return a dictionary.words: Open the specified file in read mode, add each word it contains to a dictionary, and return it.