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diff --git a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst index 4768740..c90758c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst @@ -212,7 +212,10 @@ Paths of a different flavour compare unequal and cannot be ordered:: Operators ^^^^^^^^^ -The slash operator helps create child paths, similarly to :func:`os.path.join`:: +The slash operator helps create child paths, mimicking the behaviour of +:func:`os.path.join`. For instance, when several absolute paths are given, the +last is taken as an anchor; for a Windows path, changing the local root doesn't +discard the previous drive setting:: >>> p = PurePath('/etc') >>> p @@ -222,6 +225,10 @@ The slash operator helps create child paths, similarly to :func:`os.path.join`:: >>> q = PurePath('bin') >>> '/usr' / q PurePosixPath('/usr/bin') + >>> p / '/an_absolute_path' + PurePosixPath('/an_absolute_path') + >>> PureWindowsPath('c:/Windows', '/Program Files') + PureWindowsPath('c:/Program Files') A path object can be used anywhere an object implementing :class:`os.PathLike` is accepted:: |