All,
I know that /os.path/ includes a function /expandvars(..)/ which expands
any environment variables in a given path, but from looking at the
/pathlib/ documentation It seems there is
no equivalent to /os.path.expandvars(..) on any class/ in /pathlib/, and
the recommendation seems to be to use /pathlib/ to do any and all path
manipulations, with the exception of expanding environment variables.
It appears that the recommended /pathlib/ compatible code to fully
convert any file path (which may have environment variables and or ~ or
~user constructs) to a fully resolved absolute path is :
import os.path
import pathlib
given_path = input('Provide the full path')
abs_path =
pathlib.Path(os.path.expandvars(pathlib.Path(givenpath).expanduser())).resolve()
It seems to me that /pathlib.Path/ would benefit massively from an
/os.path.expandvars(..)/ equivalent - so that the equivalent code could be :
import os.path
import pathlib
given_path = input('Provide the full path')
abs_path = pathlib.Path(givenpath).expandvars().expanduser().resolve()
I know the need to do this is likely to be a corner case, but even still
it continues dependency on /os.path/ for those programs that need to
resolve environment variables in paths, and increases the cognitive load
for this operation, , and it seems like a missed feature in /pathlib/
A change such as this shouldn't affect backwards compatibility.
What do people think - have I missed something or is pathlib missing
something ?
/Pathlib documentation
/
/https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#module-pathlib/
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