unixpath

unix-style path processing functions

Why?

My goal was to provide posixpath path processing functions in pure Python (e.g. normpath, join, split, etc) minus any functions that rely on any kind of "filesystem" concept (stat, etc).

Basically, this is a "minimum viable unix path processing framework." Path processing functions are useful for e.g. ML libraries that want to use unix-style paths to refer to model variables.

(Honestly unixpath is kind of pointless. Its functions are copy-pasted from posixpath, so why not just import posixpath and not worry about the extra dependency on unixpath? Answer: because I was curious how Python implemented their unix path processing functions, so I made this library as a learning exercise.)

Install

python3 -m pip install -U unixpath

Usage

import unixpath
unixpath.join('a', 'b') # 'a/b'
unixpath.join('a', 'b', '..', 'c') # 'a/b/../c'
unixpath.normpath('a/b/../c') # 'a/c'

License

MIT

Contact

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