[Python-ideas] New PEP proposal -- Pathlib Module Should Contain All File Operations

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Jason Maldonis writes:

 > So we have two "high-level" libraries (pathlib and shutil)

pathlib is currently "low-level" as I understand the word.  The only
complex things it does are resolving and globbing, which are
reasonable things to do with a Path's target object.  Everything else
is either a formal Path manipulation, or acts on a single object that
is the target of a Path.