Pathlib

Posted on September 12, 2020

Contents

• Basics
• Read text
• Further reading

Basics

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

text = pathlib.Path('myfile.txt').read_text()
print(text)

Further reading

• Pathlib — Object-Oriented Filesystem Paths — Python 3.8.6rc1 Documentation. Accessed September 12, 2020. https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html
• Python 3’s Pathlib Module: Taming the File System. Real Python. Accessed September 12, 2020. https://realpython.com/python-pathlib/

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