AzureDLPath Class

Subclass of native object-oriented filesystem path.

This is used as a convenience class for reducing boilerplate and eliminating differences between system-dependent paths.

We subclass the system's concrete pathlib class due to this issue:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29850801/subclass-pathlib-path-fails

Construct a PurePath from one or several strings and or existing PurePath objects. The strings and path objects are combined so as to yield a canonicalized path, which is incorporated into the new PurePath object.

Inheritance

PureWindowsPath

AzureDLPath

Constructor

AzureDLPath(*args)

Parameters

Name	Description
path Required	AzureDLPath or <xref:azure.datalake.store.core.string> location of file or directory

Examples

>>> p1 = AzureDLPath('/Users/foo')  
>>> p2 = AzureDLPath(p1.name)  

Methods

startswith	Return whether string starts with the prefix. This is equivalent to str.startswith.
trim	Return path without anchor (concatenation of drive and root).

startswith

Return whether string starts with the prefix.

This is equivalent to str.startswith.

startswith(prefix, *args, **kwargs)

Parameters

Name	Description
prefix Required

trim

Return path without anchor (concatenation of drive and root).

trim()

Attributes

globless_prefix

Return shortest path prefix without glob quantifiers.