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Version: 2.32.0

Folder reference

Constructor​

Constructing these yourself is not recommended. You should make an EdgeSession and access the .files property, which will return a Folder object at the root of the file system.

Methods​

open​

open(name, open_with=None) -> File, Folder, or object

Open an existing file or folder.

Parameters​

  • name (str)
    The name of the file or folder to open. May be a delimited series of folder names like "/this/folder/file" and we will walk all folders and open the final one.
  • open_with (str)
    Optional; name of an opener to use to open the object. Examples are "pandas" or "imageio", or "file" to get a file-like object giving access to the raw bytes. If not specified, an opener will be automatically picked for you.

Returns​

The opened object. By default, the exact type depends on the combination of the opener and file type. To disable this behavior and always get a plain File instance, set open_with="file".

If the object pointed to by name is a folder, open_with must not be set.

In order to open certain types of files, you may need to install additional packages.

Images​

Images use the imageio (for the ImageIOOpener) or pillow_simd (for the PILOpener) package. To open an image, you must have one or both of these installed:

$ edm install imageio pillow_simd
CSV and Excel Files​

Files with suffixes ".csv", ".xls", ".xlsx", ".xlsm", ".xlsb", ".odf", ".ods", ".odt" generally need Pandas and OpenPyXL installed to support the PandasOpener:

$ edm install pandas openpyxl

Raises​

  • NotFound: No object of the given name exists.
  • ValueError: The given opener couldn't understand the file.

download​

download(name, localpath=None)

Download to a local file. Currently, only downloading an individual file (not a folder) is supported.

Parameters​

  • name (str)
    Name (or path, with "/" characters) of the remote object.
  • localpath (str) Optional; Download to this path locally. Defaults to the same basename in the current working directory.

Raises​

  • NotFound: No object of the given name exists.

upload​

upload(destination, fp, overwrite=False)

Upload a file to this folder.

Parameters​
  • destination (str)
    The name (or path, with "/" characters) of the file to create in Edge. You can provide a path with multiple folder names separated by slashes, such as "/this/folder/path". The API will recursively create all necessary folders in the specified path.
  • fp (file-like)
    A Python file-like object which provides a read() method, returning bytes.
  • overwrite (bool)
    If True, any existing file will be overwritten. Default is False.

Raises​

  • AlreadyExists: Raised if the destination already exists and overwrite is False.

make_folder​

make_folder(name) -> Folder

Make a new folder.

Parameters​

  • name (str)
    The name of the folder to be created within the specified directory. You can provide a path with multiple folder names separated by slashes, such as "/this/folder/path". The API will recursively create all necessary folders in the specified path.

Returns​

Folder The new folder object.

Raises​

  • AlreadyExists: Raised if the specified folder name already exists.

list​

list() -> list(str)

List all file and folder names in this folder. The order in which they are returned is undefined.

Returns​

list(str) File and folder names.

list_files​

list_files() -> list(str)

List only the names of files in this folder. The order in which they are returned is undefined.

Returns​

list(str) File names only.

list_folders​

list_folders() -> list(str)

List only the names of folders in this folder. The order in which they are returned is undefined.

Returns​

list(str) Folder names only.

exists​

exists(name) -> bool

Determine if a file or folder exists.

Parameters​

  • name (str)
    The name (or path, with "/" characters) of the object to test.

Returns​

bool Whether the object exists.

delete​

delete(object)

Delete a file or folder, given a name (or path). No error is raised if the object does not exist.

Parameters​

  • object (str)
    Name (or path, with "/" components) of object to delete.

move​

move(source, destination)

Move a file or folder to a new location.

Parameters​

  • source (str)
    The name (or path, with "/" characters) of the file or folder to move.
  • destination (str)
    The path to which the file or folder will be moved.

Raises​

  • NotFound: No object of the given source exists.
  • ValueError: destination must not be empty.
  • AlreadyExists: Raised if the destination already exists.

rename​

rename(source, name)

Rename a file, while keeping it in the same folder.

Parameters​

  • source (str)
    The name (not path) of the file or folder to rename.
  • name (str)
    The new name for the file or folder.

Raises​

  • NotFound: No object of the given source exists.
  • ValueError: source and name must be a simple string.
  • AlreadyExists: Raised if the target file or folder name already exists.