If there it is desireable to have pathlib used to represent paths that do not map directly to the filesystem..
then it might be an acceptable compromise to have yet another... package that just imports os, pathlib, shutil etc and re-exports all relevant functions. i mean we are talking about convenience here anyway not new functionality and this would enable 1-import convenience that gives you all-you-would-ever-want but at the cost of maybe a bit more startup time if you only needed 1 of the 3 modules that do actual work. and avoid polluting pathlib with things that are... too useful in the real world :P
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