Python 3.4+pathlibterm

pathlib.PurePath

pure paths

A filesystem path for pure computation, with no I/O (name/suffix/parts/parent).

Syntax

pathlib.PurePath(*segments)

PurePath() is a factory: it gives you PureWindowsPath on Windows and PurePosixPath elsewhere, so name the flavour explicitly when you want deterministic behaviour in tests. A pure path has no .exists(), .open() or .iterdir() — everything that touches the disk lives on Path only. Paths of different flavours never compare equal, even when their strings are identical.

Examples

import pathlib
p = pathlib.PurePath('a/b/c.txt')
print(p.name, p.suffix)   # → c.txt .txt
print(p.parts)            # → ('a', 'b', 'c.txt')

See also

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