Should you be using Pathlib?

25 points · submitted Feb 2021 by u/ADGEfficiency · Tutorial · archived

I've been working in Python for four years - recently I made the conscious choice to use pathlib rather than the more familiar os & os.path.

It's been a great experience - I wrote a short piece (friend link) comparing the two libraries on common workflows & tasks done with file paths.

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KenchForTheBench 2 points · Feb 2021

Just a FYI there exists os.makedirs that accepts exist_ok as argument (and that includes the parents=True functionality automatically). Great article nonetheless.

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ADGEfficiency [OP] 1 points · Feb 2021

Thanks for this - are there are any other differences with `os.makedirs`?

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