Unipath Object-oriented alternative to os/os.path/shutil *2009-03-29: Home page is currently down. Download tarball below, and see the README for complete documentation. The source will be on Bitbucket after PyCon.* Unipath is package for doing pathname calculations and filesystem access in an object-oriented manner, an alternative to ``os.path.*``, ``shutil.*``, ``glob``, and some ``os.*`` functions.. It's based on Jason Orendorff's *path.py* but does not adhere as strictly to the underlying functions' syntax, in order to provide more user convenience and higher-level functionality. For example: - ``p.mkdir()`` succeeds silently if the directory already exists, and - ``p.mkdir(True)`` creates intermediate directories a la ``os.makedirs``. - ``p.rmtree(parents=True)`` combines ``shutil.rmtree``, ``os.path.isdir``, ``os.remove``, and ``os.removedirs``, to recursively remove whatever it is if it exists. - ``p.read_file("rb")`` returns the file's contents in binary mode. - ``p.needs_update([other_path1, ...])`` returns True if p doesn't exist or has an older timestamp than any of the others. - extra convenience functions in the ``unipath.tools`` module. ``dict2dir`` creates a directory hierarchy described by a ``dict``. ``dump_path`` displays an ASCII tree of a directory hierarchy. The ``Path`` class subclasses ``AbstractPath``, which contains only those methods that don't consult the filesystem. Most users just use the ``Path`` class and ignore the base class, but it's there for specialized uses. Here's a comparision of some ``Path`` operations and their stdlib equivalents: # Reference a file that's two directories above another file. p = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname("/A/B/C")), "file.txt") p = Path("A/B/C").parent.parent.child("file.txt") p = Path("A/B/C").ancestor(2).child("file.txt") p0 = Path("/A/B/C"); p = Path(p0.parent.parent, "file.txt") # Change the extension of a path. p = os.path.splitext("image.jpg")[0] + ".png" p = Path("image.jpg").name + ".png" Documentation is in the README and on the `website <http://sluggo.scrapping.cc/python/unipath/>`__. Unipath is for Python 2.4 or higher, and comes with a test suite. The API is pretty much stable now. The development repository is http://bitbucket.org/sluggo/unipath . Mike Orr abd47a5965a698cd5c45b06b4f96ea7a3536d1e9 0.2.1