Description

A platform-independent path encapsulation class.

This module provides one class that hides the differences between path, all depending on the platform-specific details. For example, under Windows, the filenames are compared case-insensitively, and a drive letter is used. The filenames can still be rendered according to how they were initialized.

In particular, the following details are abstracted:

1. Case-sensitiveness; the path stores case-sensitive paths, but compares case-insensitively for filesystems that don't support it (i.e. under MS Windows). This also takes care of the case-sensitiveness for drive letters;
2. Path separators: slashes and backslashes are not kept and are add upon conversion to string only;

More why?

• os.path.isabs() under Windows does not work.
• Once we have a representation in components, path manipulations are faster.
• Removes the need for normalization.

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