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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

by Alan D. Moore
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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The pathlib module

A more recent addition to the Python standard library is the pathlib module, a more object-oriented and somewhat higher-level take on filesystem paths, which you may remember from Chapter 7, Navigating Records with Treeview. Unlike os.path, which is just a collection of functions and constants, pathlib offers the Path object, which represents a filesystem location.

We typically use pathlib by importing the Path class from it, as follows:

>>> from pathlib import Path
>>> p = Path()
>>> print(p)
.
>>> print(p.absolute())
'/home/alanm'

Path defaults to the current working directory, but you can also provide it with an absolute or relative path string. Relative paths will be calculated against the current working directory. ...

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