def basic_file_operations(self, sharename, filename, service):
        # Creating an SMB file share in your Azure Files account.
        print('\nAttempting to create a sample file from text for upload demonstration.')   
        # All directories and share must be created in a parent share.
        # Max capacity: 5TB per share

        print('Creating sample share.')
        share_client = service.create_share(share_name=sharename)
        print('Sample share "'+ sharename +'" created.')


        # Creating an optional file directory in your Azure Files account.
        print('Creating a sample directory.')    
        # Get the directory client
        directory_client = share_client.create_directory("mydirectory")
        print('Sample directory "mydirectory" created.')


        # Uploading text to sharename/mydirectory/my_text_file in Azure Files account.
        # Max capacity: 1TB per file
        print('Uploading a sample file from text.')   
        # create_file_client
        file_client = directory_client.get_file_client(filename)
        # Upload a file
        file_client.upload_file('Hello World! - from text sample')
        print('Sample file "' + filename + '" created and uploaded to: ' + sharename + '/mydirectory')
  

        # Demonstrate how to copy a file
        print('\nCopying file ' + filename)
        # Create another file client which will copy the file from url
        destination_file_client = share_client.get_file_client('file1copy')

        # Copy the sample source file from the url to the destination file
        copy_resp = destination_file_client.start_copy_from_url(source_url=file_client.url)
        if copy_resp['copy_status'] ==  'pending':
            # Demonstrate how to abort a copy operation (just for demo, probably will never get here)
            print('Abort copy operation')
            destination_file.abort_copy()
        else:
            print('Copy was a ' + copy_resp['copy_status'])
        

        # Demonstrate how to create a share and upload a file from a local temporary file path
        print('\nAttempting to upload a sample file from path for upload demonstration.')  
        # Creating a temporary file to upload to Azure Files
        print('Creating a temporary file from text.') 
        with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) as my_temp_file:
            my_temp_file.file.write(b"Hello world!")
        print('Sample temporary file created.') 

        # Uploading my_temp_file to sharename folder in Azure Files
        # Max capacity: 1TB per file
        print('Uploading a sample file from local path.')
        # Create file_client
        file_client = share_client.get_file_client(filename)

        # Upload a file
        with open(my_temp_file.name, "rb") as source_file:
            file_client.upload_file(source_file)

        print('Sample file "' + filename + '" uploaded from path to share: ' + sharename)

        # Close the temp file
        my_temp_file.close()

        # Get the list of valid ranges and write to the specified range
        print('\nGet list of valid ranges of the file.') 
        file_ranges = file_client.get_ranges()

        data = b'abcdefghijkl'
        print('Put a range of data to the file.')
        
        file_client.upload_range(data=data, offset=file_ranges[0]['start'], length=len(data))


        # Demonstrate how to download a file from Azure Files
        # The following example download the file that was previously uploaded to Azure Files
        print('\nAttempting to download a sample file from Azure files for demonstration.')

        destination_file = tempfile.tempdir + '\mypathfile.txt'

        with open(destination_file, "wb") as file_handle:
            data = file_client.download_file()
            data.readinto(file_handle)

        print('Sample file downloaded to: ' + destination_file)


        # Demonstrate how to list files and directories contains under Azure File share
        print('\nAttempting to list files and directories directory under share "' + sharename + '":')

        # Create a generator to list directories and files under share
        # This is not a recursive listing operation
        generator = share_client.list_directories_and_files()

        # Prints the directories and files under the share
        for file_or_dir in generator:
            print(file_or_dir['name'])
        
        # remove temp file
        os.remove(my_temp_file.name)

        print('Files and directories under share "' + sharename + '" listed.')
        print('\nCompleted successfully - Azure basic Files operations.')