pathlib

Inspired by the python library pathlib.

Differences to the python library API

+ Addition | - Removal | $ Change

• • There are no PureXPath base classes.
• • No PureXPath base classes.
• • No inheritance tree.
• $ Most operations/functions are D module functions but can be called as if they were members (thanks to D's unified function call syntax UFCS).
• $ as_posix() => posixData().
• • asPosix() to convert between different paths.
• • asNormalized() to normalize a path, without resolving it. This works for all types of paths, regardless of the current system.
• as_posix() => posixData(). Additionally, there is also windowsData().
• $ Instead of overloading operator /, the concatenation operator ~ is overloaded instead: Path("hello") ~ "world" ~ "goodBye // WindowsPath("hello\world\goodBye") or PosixPath("hello/world/goodBye")
• $ Instead of suffix() and suffixes() there are extension(), extensions(), and fullExtension().
• $ While pythons pathlib usually uses '/' as the path segment separator, we try to maintain the separator for the current type of path as much as possible.
• $ Instead of providing rglob(), glob() accepts an optional SpanMode parameter. The type SpanMode is a public import from std.file.
• • copyFileTo() To copy one file to some destination and copyTo() to copy either files or directories (not unlike cp -r).