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Interacting with the OS and filesystem

The os module in Python provides many functions for interacting with the OS and the filesystem. Let's import it and try out some examples.

import os

We can check the present working directory using the os.getcwd function.

os.getcwd()
'/home/jovyan'

To get the list of files in a directory, use os.listdir. You pass an absolute or relative path of a directory as the argument to the function.