Python Pathlib (mostly better than os.path)

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Pathlib is in the standard library since Python 3.4 and is better than os.path for most tasks. A good overview is Trey Hunner's 2024 guide, which has a nice cheatsheet.

One really nice feature is that Path overrides the / operator, so instead of using the joinpath method you can do things like this:

home = Path.home()
projects = home / "Downloads" / "projects"

It distinguishes between concrete paths (usually via Path) which access the filesystem, and pure paths (via PurePath) which offers path manipulations WITHOUT any actual filesystem access.

It has excellent strategies for managing paths in O/S-agonostic ways, and can resolve() a path on a specific O/S.

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