I create workflows that involve a huge number of file operations. For doing file operations I strongly recommend the built-in pathlib library. Before pathlib to work with files you had to deal with methods in three different libraries (at least) that were designed around the C/UNIX approach to file handling. Not Pythonic, to say the least.

In Python 2 I used a third party libary called Unipath that put almost all the functionality I wanted in a Path object. In Python 3.4, the pathlib library was provided, which mostly mirrors Unipath, but left a few things out.

So pathlib_additions are my additions to pathlib to make it do everything I want. You are welcome to use this and submit patches/requests/bugs.

To use it, do these imports:

from pathlib import Path
import pathlib_additions

pathlib_additions adds a number of methods to the Path object.

write_content(content, encoding='utf-8', errors=None)

pathlib's write_text() method requires the destination directory to exist. write_content() creates the directory if necessary then uses write_text() to write out the text.

The directories() method returns an iterator of directories in the Path.

The files() method returns an iterator of files in the Path.

copy(destination)

Copies this path to the destination, which can be a Path object or string. Creates the destination directory if necessary.

walk(path_filter=None)

Returns an iterator of all Paths in this path's directory structure. If a path_filter function is specified, it is called for each item.

Removes all items under this path, including the path itself. Does not raise an exception if the path doesn't exist.

Library created by Ronald Hayden of Conquer Programming