Forget os.path.* — pathlib.Path is the modern, OS-aware way to work with paths. Operator overloading for joins, attribute access for components, methods for reads/writes/iterations.
Python
from pathlib import Path
p = Path("/var/log/myapp") / "app.log" # path join with /
print(p.parent) # /var/log/myapp
print(p.name) # app.log
print(p.stem) # app
print(p.suffix) # .log
# Exists / type checks
print(p.exists(), p.is_file(), p.is_dir())
# Read / write whole file
text = p.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
p.write_text("hello\n", encoding="utf-8")
# Iterate a directory (lazy)
for child in Path("src").iterdir():
print(child)
# Glob — recursive **
for py in Path("src").rglob("*.py"):
print(py)
# Build platform-aware home/config paths
config = Path.home() / ".config" / "myapp.toml"
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