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YSK: there is a library called pathlib with different methods for accessing files which you might like since they do not require a context manager (lemmy.world)
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https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html

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[โ€“] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's also a really fun example of operator overloading. __div__ is overloaded to allow this syntax.

>>> p = PurePath('/etc')    
>>> p    
PurePosixPath('/etc')    
>>> p / 'init.d' / 'apache2'    
PurePosixPath('/etc/init.d/apache2')
[โ€“] kabi@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Disgusting. I love it!