Just Use Pathlib
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Pathlib is an amazing cross-platform path tool.

Date: September 26, 2019

Pathlib is an amazing cross-platform path tool.

Import
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[code]
  from pathlib import Path

Create path object
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Current Directory

[code]
  cwd = Path('.').absolute()

Users Home Directory

[code]
  home = Path.home()

module directory

[code]
  module_path = Path(__file__)

Others Let’s create a path relative to our current module.

[code]
  data_path = Path(__file__) / 'data'

Check if files exist
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Make Directories
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[code]
  data_path.mkdir(parents=True, exists_ok=True)

rename files
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[code]
  Path(data_path /'example.csv').rename('real.csv')

List files
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Glob Files
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[code]
  data_path.glob('*.csv')

recursively

[code]
  data_path.rglob('*.csv')

Write
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[code]
  Path(data_path / 'meta.txt').write_text(f'created on {datetime.datetime.today()})