Python - File System Path

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File System - Path in Python

Path definition can be found path-like-object

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Library

Os.path

3/library/os.path.html

To create a path:

• os.path Example with 3/library/os.path.html to create a path from parts

os.path.join("output","log.txt")

Pathlib

Object-oriented filesystem paths

• Concrete

from pathlib import Path
Path('setup.py') # a subclass of PurePath

• Pure classes (They don’t have any OS-accessing operations)

PurePath('/etc', '/usr', 'lib64') # generic, it creates either a PurePosixPath or a PureWindowsPath
PurePosixPath('/etc') # non-Windows filesystem paths
PureWindowsPath('c:/Windows', 'd:bar') # Windows filesystem paths