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The recommended version specifier is generic-path ~= x.y for version 1.0 and later, and generic-path ~= 0.y.z for versions prior to 1.0.
- Improved documentation
- Added support for Python 3.12 and 3.13
- Dropped support for end-of-life Python versions 3.7 and 3.8
- Removed methods
Platform.__new__andPlatform.__format__that were unintentionally documented as public
- Improved documentation
- Added the ability to force GPath to interpret a path string as originating from a specific operating system, which prevents problems in edge cases, using the new
platformargument inGPath.__init__(); this also propagates to new GPaths returned by operations- Added the read-only property
g.platformfor this propagating platform parameter - Added static methods
from_posix(),from_windows()(and aliasesfrom_linux()andfrom_macos()) as alternative interfaces to call the constructor for a specific platform - Added submodule
gpath.platformwith aPlatformenum for specifying platforms (either as a string given ingpath.platform.platform_namesor as agpath.Platformobject)
- Added the read-only property
- Added
g.render(), which returns aRenderedPathobject for printing and sorting in a platform-specific manner- Added submodule
gpath.rendercontaining subclasses ofRenderedPaththat define the render behaviour for each platform - GenericRenderedPath resembles the previous behaviour of GPath, and prints with forward slashes
/ - PosixRenderedPath ignores drive names when sorting and printing, and always prints with forward slashes
/ - WindowsRenderedPath always prints with backslashes
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- Added submodule
- Fixed bug with encoding propagation in the copy constructor
- Fixed support for bytes in older versions of Python
- Fixed documentation and readme
- Replaced the following instance methods with read-only properties:
g.get_parent_level()→g.parent_levelg.get_parent_parts()→g.parent_partsg.get_device()→g.drive(renameddevicetodrive)g.is_absolute()→g.absoluteg.is_root()→g.root
- Replaced
g.get_parts()andg.from_parts()with the read-only propertiesg.named_partsandg.relative_parts - Replaced
GPath.find_common()withg.common_with()and addedg1 & g2as an alias forg.common_with()with default options - Removed the ability to sort GPaths, and removed the following comparison operators:
g1 < g2g1 <= g2g1 > g2g1 >= g2
- Removed package constants
PATH_SEPARATOR,PATH_CURRENT,PATH_PARENT, and typedefPathLike
- Changed
g1 + g2,g1 / g2andg.join()so that appending an absolute path overwrites the left operand; previously the left operand would be returned unchanged - Changed
g1 == g2so that it can return True even when the left operand is GPath-like but not a GPath object
- Added
g.as_absolute(),g.as_relative(),g.with_drive(),g.without_drive()for returning modified copies of the path - Added support for drive names in relative paths
- Added support for instantiating a GPath with a bytes-like object,
GPath(byteslike)(or, fixed the constructor that was previously broken for bytes-like objects) - Added an argument to
GPath.__init__()to allow specifying encoding (default'utf-8'), which propagates to new GPaths when performing operations with other bytes-like operands - Added the read-only property
g.encodingfor this propagating encoding - Added abstract base classes for GPath, from
collections.abc - Fixed
g1 / g2 - Fixed small errors in web documentation
- Renamed
GPath.currenttoGPath.current_dirandGPath.parenttoGPath.parent_dir - Renamed
g.is_root()tog.is_absolute() - Renamed the optional arguments in
g.find_common()andg.partition(), fromcommon_currentandcommon_parenttoallow_currentandallow_parent - Added a new
g.is_root()that checks whether the path is exactly root - Added
g.__div__()as an alias ofg.__add__() - Added web documentation at https://gpath.gnayihs.uy/
- Fixed basic example in README
- Added support for Python versions 3.7 through 3.9; previously only 3.10 and 3.11 were supported
- Initial version