--- title: pathlib: why and how to use it - Trey Hunter | daily.dev description: If your Python code works with file paths, you should be using pathlib. This standard library module may seem a bit cumbersome at first, but pathlib-using code... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pathlib-why-and-how-to-use-it---trey-hunter-wnr6qdj8j twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: pathlib: why and how to use it - Trey Hunter | daily.dev og:description: If your Python code works with file paths, you should be using pathlib. This standard library module may seem a bit cumbersome at first, but pathlib-using code... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pathlib-why-and-how-to-use-it---trey-hunter-wnr6qdj8j og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wnr6QDj8J.png og:image:alt: pathlib: why and how to use it - Trey Hunter og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # pathlib: why and how to use it - Trey Hunter **[PyCon US](https://daily.dev/sources/pyconus)** · 26 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary If your Python code works with file paths, you should be using pathlib. This standard library module may seem a bit cumbersome at first, but pathlib-using code is often more readable than the alternative. Python's many path-oriented utilities used to expect a string representation for all file paths. That's not the case anymore. Now every important path-consuming library will accept pathlib.Path objects. During this talk, we'll see why pathlib.Path objects make for more maintainable code. We'll visit a number of useful pathlib examples and recipes along the way. By the end of this talk, you'll be tempted to convert all your path-handling code to use pathlib. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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