A Deep Dive Into Pathlib And The Magic Behind It

If you’re not yet using pathlib for dealing with files and directories, you’re missing out. This video takes a close look at the pathlib library in Python and explains some of the magic that goes into it, as well as how you can use it in your own code.

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🔖 Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:55 Why not simply use strings
1:10 Issues with strings
2:20 Basic usage of pathlib
4:02 Back slashes and forward slashes
5:13 Reading file from a path
6:03 Resolving paths
6:41 Useful path properties
8:15 Checking whether path is a file or a directory
8:43 Creating and deleting files and directories
10:43 Reading paths from configuration files
11:13 Pathlib and Pydantic
12:31 Operator overloading in Python
16:34 Outro

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