Universal Pathlib

Universal Pathlib is a python library that aims to extend Python's built-in pathlib.Path api to use a variety of backend filesystems using fsspec

Installation

Pypi

pip install universal_pathlib

conda

conda install -c conda-forge universal_pathlib

Basic Usage

>>> from upath import UPath

>>> path = UPath("file:/some/filepath.py")
>>> path.name
filepath.py
>>> path.stem
filepath
>>> path.suffix
.py
>>> path.exists()
True

Some backends may require other dependencies. For example to work with S3 paths, s3fs is required.

For more examples, see the example notebook here