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makin hardlinks with pathlib.Path - Skaperen - Sep-06-2018
i see that pathlib.Path.symlink_to exists and is documented. so, i can create a symlink. but i see no means to do a hardlink. i would have expected something named pathlib.Path.link_to to be there to be that. but it does not exist nor is anything like a hardlink documented for pathlib. it looks like i will need to use os.link to make the hardlinks. is there a known way to make a hardlink with just pathlib?
RE: makin hardlinks with pathlib.Path - DeaD_EyE - Sep-06-2018
You can mokey patch.
import pathlib
def link(self, dst, *, src_dir_fd=None, dst_dir_fd=None, follow_symlinks=True):
os.link(self, dst, src_dir_fd=src_dir_fd, dst_dir_fd=dst_dir_fd, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks)
pathlib.PosixPath.link = link
RE: makin hardlinks with pathlib.Path - scidam - Sep-06-2018
if you trace source code of pathlib
you will see that it actively uses
os module. Internally, many methods of pathlib.Path class invokesos.<some_method>. The latter (os), in turn, is based primarily on posixmodule.c.So, it is possible to create hardlinks using pathlib (joke!), e.g.
import pathlib pathlib.os.link(...) # will create hard link... Unfortunately, I think, there is no way to do that the way you want.