Hi George,

While the old “let’s treat strings as paths” modules are split up like you said, pathlib can do what they do and more: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html

It’s also prettier and easier to use, especially when using autocompletion (just type “path.is<tab>” and see what you can test the path for)

Best, Philipp

George Fischhof <george@fischhof.hu> schrieb am Do., 12. Jan. 2017 um 10:06 Uhr:

Hi There,

OS related file operations (copy, move, delete, rename...) should be placed into one module...
As it quite confusing that they are in two moduls (os and shutil).

I have read that one is higher level than other, but actually to use them I have to think which function can be found in which module.

It is confuse for beginners, and makes the usage more complex instead of make it more simple (as Zen of Python says ;-) )

An alias could good, not to cause incompatibility.

Best regards,
George
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