Gavin Wiggins
Pathlib
Written on November 8, 2022
The pathlib module handles file paths with support for different operating systems.
Read text
The example below uses pathlib to read text from a file.
>>> import pathlib
>>> pathlib.Path('myfile.txt').read_text()
'text contained in the file'
File name
Get the file name from a given path.
>>> import pathlib
>>> file = '/Users/gavinw/Desktop/screenshot.png'
>>> pathlib.Path(file).name
'screenshot.png'
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