Python pathlib Guide: Get File Path Information

It is easy to use python pathlib package to get some basic file path information. In this tutorial, we will use some examples to show you this topic.

How to use python pathlib to get file path information?

In order to use python pathlib, we should import it as follows:

from pathlib import Path

Then we can use this package to get file information.

We will use a file in D:\xampp\MercuryMail\manual.pdf as an example.

We will create a path object.

file = r'D:\xampp\MercuryMail\manual.pdf'
path = Path(file)

1.Get parent directory

parent = path.parent
print(parent)

Result: D:\xampp\MercuryMail

2.Get file name

filename = path.name
print(filename)

Result: manual.pdf

3.Get file suffix

filesuffix = path.suffix
print(filesuffix)

Result: .pdf

Notice: The suffix is .pdf, not pdf.

4.Get file name without suffix

filename = path.stem
print(filename)

Result: manual

5.Is file or directory

if path.is_file():
    print("This is file")
if path.is_dir():
    print("This is directory")

Result: This is file

6.Is absolute path

if path.is_absolute():
    print("It is absolute")
else:
    print("It is not absolute")

Result: It is absolute

7.Get current directory

print(path.cwd())

Result: D:\workspace\Test-Code

8.Join path

p = path.joinpath('test')
print(p)

Result: D:\xampp\MercuryMail\manual.pdf\test

9.Is exist

if path.exists():
    print("This file is exist")
else:
    print("This file is not exist")

Result: This file is exist

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