os

Operating-system interfaces: environment variables, processes, directories and low-level files.

Easy

import os
os.environ.get("API_KEY")
os.getcwd(), os.listdir("."), os.cpu_count()
os.makedirs("out/plots", exist_ok=True)

For paths prefer pathlib.

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