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A filesystem abstraction layer

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Stars
2
Forks
6
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
24
Dominant language
Python
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Jul 24, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 18, 2026
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  • Check equality behavior for ..
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Julian/Filesystems#51 ·

  • Add memory.FS.manifest_on(native.FS(), path)
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/Filesystems#50 ·

  • fs.open/fs.create(..., permissions=) for race-conditionless chowning
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/Filesystems#45 ·

  • fs.chown
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Julian/Filesystems#44 · 1 comment ·

  • get_/set_contents should allow for text mode
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/Filesystems#43 ·

  • Paths should be repr'ed in exceptions
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    Julian/Filesystems#42 ·

  • Random checklist to break into issues
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/Filesystems#41 ·

  • Might need a way to indicate whether to output trailing slashes or not
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    Julian/Filesystems#38 ·

  • Make realpath iterative
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/Filesystems#36 ·

  • Make `fs.open` and `fs.create` return our own file(-like) objects with `.bytes` and `.text` methods
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/Filesystems#34 ·

  • native.FS should possibly use `man 3 removefile` for recursive remove
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Julian/Filesystems#32 ·

  • memory.FS should handle trying to remove the root directory
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Julian/Filesystems#31 ·

  • /dev/shm (tmpFS-)based memory FS
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Julian/Filesystems#30 ·

  • glob_children + case sensitivity
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/Filesystems#28 ·

  • Rename RelativePath.relative_to()?
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Julian/Filesystems#26 · 1 comment ·

  • Isn't cwd a filesystem property, not a path propery?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/Filesystems#24 · 2 comments ·

  • fs.copy
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Julian/Filesystems#23 · 4 comments ·

  • Implement context managers (with)
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Julian/Filesystems#22 · 5 comments ·

  • fs.move
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Julian/Filesystems#19 ·

  • memory.FS.from_contents
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Julian/Filesystems#7 ·

  • filesystems.bind(path, fs)
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/Filesystems#5 ·

  • Uniform exception translation for native.FS
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/Filesystems#3 ·

  • UnionFS
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

    Julian/Filesystems#2 ·

  • Downward-facing FS
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

    Julian/Filesystems#1 ·

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