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Pathlib

Written on November 8, 2022

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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'