Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

How to do it...

Perform the following steps for this recipe:

1. The pathlib library allows us to build paths from the parts that constitute it, by properly doing the right thing based on the system you are on:

>>> import pathlib
>>> 
>>> path = pathlib.Path('somefile.txt')
>>> path.write_text('Hello World')  # Write some text into file.
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>>> print(path.resolve())  # Print absolute path
/Users/amol/wrk/pythonstlcookbook/somefile.txt
>>> path.read_text()  # Check the file content
'Hello World'
>>> path.unlink()  # Destroy the file

2. The interesting part is that the same actions would lead to the same exact result on Windows, even though path.resolve() would have printed a slightly different result:

>>> print(path.resolve()) # Print absolute path ...