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Accessing Files and Folders (Review Exercises)
00:00 Time for a couple of review exercises before you move on to the next steps.
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Start by creating a new Path object that points to a file called my_file.txt and place it in a folder, my_folder/ , and then put it into your computer’s home directory.
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Then assign this Path object to the variable name file_path. Once you have that, check whether the path assigned to file_path exists, then print the name of the path assigned to file_path.
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The output should be a string that says 'my_file.txt'. Finally, print the name of the parent directory of the path assigned to file_path.
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The output here should be, again, a string, 'my_folder'. As a bonus, you can also see if you remember how you can pick apart the filename my_file.txt and just print out the stem and the file suffix separately.
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Do these exercises locally on your computer to get a bit of practice using pathlib and to solidify the different methods and attributes on Path objects that you’ve heard about in this section of the course.
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