However, by using the os module and its built-in functions, programmers can make direct calls to the commands of the host operating system to perform tasks such as searching and creating directories.

Sure That Works on Linux, But… Python, of course, runs on many different platforms. So why is this part of Linux Fu? Because you can easily use it to launch any command line program.

Using Python's os.walk function to walk through a tree of files and directories. I'm a web guy; I put together my first site in early 1993. And so, when I started to do Python training, I assumed that ...