[issue20218] Add methods to `pathlib.Path`: `write_text`, `read_text`, `write_bytes`, `read_bytes`

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> Okay, different approach: How about having a mode argument with a
> default? (Defaults of 'rb', 'r', 'wb', 'w' respectively.)

This is redundant with the fact that there are several distinct methods:
{read,write}_{bytes,text}.

Really, the aim is to ease common operations, not to replace open()
entirely.

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