A look at the benefits of using pathlib, the "object-oriented way of dealing with paths". Working with files is one of the most common things developers do. After all, you often want to read from ...

os.path.join (folder, filename) ensures the path is correct for the system. On Windows, it uses backslashes (reports\summary.txt); on Linux and macOS it uses forward slashes (reports/summary.txt).

Learning how to create a file in Python will open up a huge number of coding possibilities. This is useful if you want to store data to provide consistency between uses. However, it’s also extremely ...