List of pathlib.Paths Not Ordered As Same List of Same String Filenames

[Larz60+]

you should look at: https://pymotw.com/3/pathlib/
a pathlib path is much easier to construct if the path nodes are contained
within a list:

from pathlib import Path

mylocation  = ['..', 'data', 'fipsCodes', 'GNIScodesForNamedPopulatedPlaces-etc', 'CountryNames', 'geonames_20171023', 'Countries.txt']

home = Path('.')
print('\n-- home --')
print(f'{home}')

print(f'{home.name}')
print(f'{home.resolve()}')

print('\n-- mydatapath --')
mydatapath = home.joinpath(*mylocation)
print(f'(\n{mydatapath}')
print(f'({mydatapath.name}')
print(f'{mydatapath.resolve()}')

print('\n-- newdatapath --')
# you can also create a path like
newdatapath = home / 'data'
print(f'\n{newdatapath}')
print(f'{newdatapath.name}')
print(f'{newdatapath.resolve()}')

print('\n-- filelist --')
filelist = [x.name for x in newdatapath.iterdir() if x.is_file()]
print(f'\n{filelist}')

print('\n-- opening files --')
fips_text_file = newdatapath / 'fips.txt'

with fips_text_file.open() as f:
    count = 0
    for line in f:
        line = line.strip()
        count += 1
        print(line)
        if count > 10:
            break

results (part of resolved path removed for security, replaced with ...):

Output:
-- home --
.

... \Tiger\src

-- mydatapath --
(
..\data\fipsCodes\GNIScodesForNamedPopulatedPlaces-etc\CountryNames\geonames_20171023\Countries.txt
(Countries.txt
... \Tiger\data\fipsCodes\GNIScodesForNamedPopulatedPlaces-etc\CountryNames\geonames_20171023\Countries.txt

-- newdatapath --

data
data
... \Tiger\src\data

-- filelist --

['fips.json', 'fips.txt', 'fipsdata.db', 'fipsdataBackup.db', 'FIPSFormat.json', 'FIPSFormat.txt', 'GNIS_CountryFormat.json', 'GNIS_CountryFormat.txt', 'GNIS_DomesticFormat.json', 'GNIS_DomesticFormat.txt']

-- opening files --
{
"AmericanIndianAreas": {
"data": {
"0010": [
"0010",
"Acoma Pueblo and Off-Reservation Trust Land"
],
"0020": [
"0020",
"Agua Caliente Indian Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land"
],