Class LocalFS

source code

object --+
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        LocalFS

Known Subclasses:

• FS

This class implements an abstraction layer for operations involving a local file system. Essentially, this wraps any function in the os, os.path or shutil modules that we use to actually go do anything with or to the local file system.

Note that there's a very good chance we'll refactor this part of the architecture in some way as we really implement the interface(s) for remote file system Nodes. For example, the right architecture might be to have this be a subclass instead of a base class. Nevertheless, we're using this as a first step in that direction.

We're not using chdir() yet because the calling subclass method needs to use os.chdir() directly to avoid recursion. Will we really need this one?