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Expand Up @@ -217,6 +217,16 @@ The slash operator helps create child paths, similarly to :func:`os.path.join`::
>>> '/usr' / q
PurePosixPath('/usr/bin')

Note that a string containing a leading '`/`' character will be considered
an absolute path, making the last to be taken as the anchor for the new
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"last"? "last one"? The phrasing is copied from pathlib.PurePath:

When several absolute paths are given, the last is taken as an anchor (mimicking os.path.join()’s behaviour):

path object (mimicking :func:`os.path.join`'s behaviour)::

>>> p = PurePath('/usr')
>>> p / '/bin'
PurePosixPath('/bin')
>>> p / '/bin' / '/python'
PurePosixPath('/python')
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Is this ok? I didn't want to use python3 to not make the example susceptible to bit-rot 😆

I couldn't think of another executable. Maybe a different path would be a better example?

Maybe I'm overthinking it! 😆 🤣


A path object can be used anywhere an object implementing :class:`os.PathLike`
is accepted::

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