Content

• Check existence
• Check type
• File information
• Creating and writing a file
• Creating a folder
• Creating a link to a file

Assume:

from pathlib import Path

file_path = Path("example.txt")
folder_path = Path("my_folder")
link_path = Path("link_to_example")

Check existence

print("File exists?", file_path.exists())
print("Folder exists?", folder_path.exists())
print("Link exists?", link_path.exists())

File exists? True
Folder exists? True
Link exists? True

Check type

print("Is file?", file_path.is_file())
print("Is directory?", file_path.is_dir())

print("Folder is directory?", folder_path.is_dir())
print("Folder is file?", folder_path.is_file())

print("Link is symlink?", link_path.is_symlink())

Is file? True
Is directory? False
Folder is directory? True
Folder is file? False
Link is symlink? True

File information

info = file_path.stat()
print("File size (bytes):", info.st_size)
print("Last modification:", info.st_mtime)
print("Last access:", info.st_atime)

File size (bytes): 14
Last modification: 1759656090.213048
Last access: 1759656090.213048

Note: Timestamps in epoch format

Creating and writing a file

if not file_path.exists():
    file_path.write_text("Test content\n")

Creating a folder

if not folder_path.exists():
    folder_path.mkdir()

Creating a link to a file

if not link_path.exists():
    try:
        link_path.symlink_to(file_path)  # may not work on Windows without admin permissions
    except Exception as e:
        print("Could not create symlink:", e)