List of alternatives to Unipath

[shurane]

As you @mikeorr mentioned, theres path.py by Jason Orendorff, pathlib from PEP 428, and a couple of other path.py forks similar to this one.

There is also a currently maintained path.py fork by Jason R. Coombs. Figured it's worth a mention as an alternative or as a comparison. Here's the link: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/path.py

I don't know if this was mentioned before, but I figured it should be brought up in the comparisons. I found out about it through the following StackOverflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3899761/will-the-real-path-py-please-stand-up/7923330#7923330

[remram44]

Today I was looking for a path manipulation library and Unipath totally looks like the way to go. Other libraries do not follow os.path.supports_unicode_filenames correctly which leads to:

• choking on invalid encodings on POSIX (supports_unicode_filenames is False -- paths are bytes! see path.py, fpath)
• or just fail to accept valid unicode names on Windows (supports_unicode_filenames is True -- the whole API is actually UTF-16! see pathlib).

It looks like you did a fine job here!

Apparently the "pure paths" from pathlib are also easy to emulate with Unipath since you have this clever AbstractPath with pathlib = os.path. I look forward to using your lib everywhere!

[remram44]

I ended up writing my own after all: rpaths, mainly because I needed an actual abstract/concrete path separation like pathlib has (I need to manipulate POSIX paths on Windows). 😒