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Picking Out Components of a Path
If you’d like a visual representation of these and other properties and methods, then check out Pathlib Cheatsheet.
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Picking Out Components of a Path. One of the most convenient features of Path is that different parts are available as properties. Basic examples include .name, the file name without any directory; .parent, the directory containing the file, or the parent directory if the path is a directory; .stem, the filename without the suffix; .suffix, the file extension; and .anchor, the part of the path before the directories.
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Note that .parent returns a new path object, whereas the other properties return strings. This means that .parent can be chained or combined with / to create completely new paths.
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The excellent Pathlib Cheatsheet provides a visual representation of these and other properties and methods. In the next section of the course, you’ll take a look at some of the finer details of the Path class.
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