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Path(*pathsegments)

PurePath subclass that can make system calls.

Path represents a filesystem path but unlike PurePath, also offers
methods to do system calls on path objects. Depending on your system,
instantiating a Path will return either a PosixPath or a WindowsPath
object. You can also instantiate a PosixPath or WindowsPath directly,
but cannot instantiate a WindowsPath on a POSIX system or vice versa.

Members of Path

a

absolute: Return an absolute version of this path No normalization or symlink resolution is performed.
as_uri: Return the path as a URI.

c

chmod: Change the permissions of the path, like os.chmod().
copy: Recursively copy this file or directory tree to the given destination.
copy_into: Copy this file or directory tree into the given existing directory.
cwd: Return a new path pointing to the current working directory.

e

exists: Whether this path exists.
expanduser: Return a new path with expanded ~ and ~user constructs (as returned by os.path.expanduser)

f

from_uri: Return a new path from the given 'file' URI.

g

glob: Iterate over this subtree and yield all existing files (of any kind, including directories) matching the given relative pattern.
group: Return the group name of the file gid.

h

hardlink_to: Make this path a hard link pointing to the same file as *target*.
home: Return a new path pointing to expanduser('~').

i

info: A PathInfo object that exposes the file type and other file attributes of this path.
is_block_device: Whether this path is a block device.
is_char_device: Whether this path is a character device.
is_dir: Whether this path is a directory.
is_fifo: Whether this path is a FIFO.
is_file: Whether this path is a regular file (also True for symlinks pointing to regular files).
is_junction: Whether this path is a junction.
is_mount: Check if this path is a mount point
is_socket: Whether this path is a socket.
is_symlink: Whether this path is a symbolic link.
iterdir: Yield path objects of the directory contents.

l

lchmod: Like chmod(), except if the path points to a symlink, the symlink's permissions are changed, rather than its target's.
lstat: Like stat(), except if the path points to a symlink, the symlink's status information is returned, rather than its target's.

m

mkdir: Create a new directory at this given path.
move: Recursively move this file or directory tree to the given destination.
move_into: Move this file or directory tree into the given existing directory.

o

open: Open the file pointed to by this path and return a file object, as the built-in open() function does.
owner: Return the login name of the file owner.

r

read_bytes: Open the file in bytes mode, read it, and close the file.
read_text: Open the file in text mode, read it, and close the file.
readlink: Return the path to which the symbolic link points.
rename: Rename this path to the target path.
replace: Rename this path to the target path, overwriting if that path exists.
resolve: Make the path absolute, resolving all symlinks on the way and also normalizing it.
rglob: Recursively yield all existing files (of any kind, including directories) matching the given relative pattern, anywhere in this subtree.
rmdir: Remove this directory.

s

samefile: Return whether other_path is the same or not as this file (as returned by os.path.samefile()).
stat: Return the result of the stat() system call on this path, like os.stat() does.
symlink_to: Make this path a symlink pointing to the target path.

t

touch: Create this file with the given access mode, if it doesn't exist.

u

unlink: Remove this file or link.

w

walk: Walk the directory tree from this directory, similar to os.walk().
write_bytes: Open the file in bytes mode, write to it, and close the file.
write_text: Open the file in text mode, write to it, and close the file.

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