Feature or enhancement

This issue covers the final tasks needed to make the pathlib ABCs worthy of using inzipfile.Path (i.e.zipp.Path).

Tasks

• RenamePurePathBase toJoinablePath, and splitPathBase intoReadablePath andWritablePath
  • GH-128520: Divide pathlib ABCs into three classes #128523
• MakeWritablePath a sibling (not subclass) ofReadablePath
  • GH-128520: Makepathlib._abc.WritablePath a sibling ofReadablePath #129014
• AddReadablePath.info
  • GH-125413: Addpathlib.Path.info attribute #127730
• Subclassabc.ABC fromJoinablePath, and makeparser abstract
  • GH-128520: Subclassabc.ABC inpathlib._abc #128745
• Make type-checking more consistent
  • GH-128520: More consistent type-checking behaviour in pathlib #130199
• Move metadata reading intoReadablePath.info; removeReadablePath._copy_reader
  • GH-125413: Add private metadata methods topathlib.Path.info #129897
• Move metadata writing intoWritablePath._write_info(); removeWritablePath._copy_writer
  • GH-125413: Add privatepathlib.Path method to write metadata #130238
• Mergepathlib._abc intopathlib.types
  • GH-128520: Mergepathlib._abc intopathlib.types #130747
  • GH-128520: Mergepathlib._local intopathlib #130748
• Tests: replace theDummy* classes with simplezipfile.Path-like implementation
  • GH-130614: pathlib ABCs: revise test suite for readable paths #131018
• Tests: add tests forWritablePath
  • GH-130614: pathlib ABCs: revise test suite for writable paths #131112
• Tests: parametrizecopy() tests
  • GH-130614: pathlib ABCs: parametrize test suite for path copying #131168
• Finalisecopy() implementation
  • GH-130614: pathlib ABCs: improve support for receiving path metadata #131259
• Add type annotations?
• Sync code to pathlib-abc PyPI package
  • GH-128520: pathlib ABCs: allow tests to be run externally #131315
• Update pathlib-abc documentation
• Publish new version of pathlib-abc
• Merge PR to jaraco/zipp
  • Add dependency onpathlib-abc jaraco/zipp#132

Discussion:https://discuss.python.org/t/make-pathlib-extensible/3428

Linked PRs

• GH-128520: Divide pathlib ABCs into three classes #128523
• GH-128520: Subclassabc.ABC inpathlib._abc #128745
• GH-128520: Makepathlib._abc.WritablePath a sibling ofReadablePath #129014
• GH-128520: Read path metadata frompathlib.types.PathInfo when copying #129841
• GH-128520: More consistent type-checking behaviour in pathlib #130199
• GH-128520: Mergepathlib._abc intopathlib.types #130747
• GH-128520: Mergepathlib._local intopathlib #130748
• GH-128520: pathlib ABCs: fixwith_name() handling of empty names #130964
• GH-128520: pathlib ABCs: allow tests to be run externally #131315
• GH-128520: pathlib ABCs: reject empty pattern inReadablePath.glob() #127343
• GH-128520: pathlib ABCs: validatemagic_open() arguments #131617
• GH-128520: pathlib ABCs: tighten up argument types #131621
• GH-128520: pathlib ABCs: raise text encoding warnings at correct stack level #133051
• GH-128520: pathlib ABCs tests: use explicit text encoding #133105
• GH-128520: pathlib ABCs: addJoinablePath.__vfspath__() #133437
• GH-128520: pathlib ABCs: improve protocol for 'openable' objects #134101
• GH-128520: pathlib ABCs: tweak protocol for virtual path strings #134104