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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook Over 100 recipes to fully leverage the features of the standard library in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788830829
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alessandro Molina Alessandro Molina
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Containers and Data Structures 2. Text Management FREE CHAPTER 3. Command Line 4. Filesystem and Directories 5. Date and Time 6. Read/Write Data 7. Algorithms 8. Cryptography 9. Concurrency 10. Networking 11. Web Development 12. Multimedia 13. Graphical User Interfaces 14. Development Tools 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with paths


Python was originally created as a system management language. It was originally meant to write scripts for the Unix system, so navigating the disk has always been one of the core parts of the language, but in the most recent versions of Python, this was extended further with the pathlib module, which makes it very convenient and easy to build paths that refer to files or directories, without having to care about the system we are running on.

Since writing multiplatform software can be bothersome, it's very important to have intermediate layers that abstract the conventions of the underlying system and allow us to write code that will work everywhere.

Especially when working with paths, the differences between how Unix and Windows systems treating paths can be problematic. The fact that one system uses / and the other \ to separate the parts of the path is bothersome by itself, but Windows also has the concept of drivers while Unix systems don't, so we need something that...

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