Feature or enhancement

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

Tasks

• Rename PurePathBase to JoinablePath, and split PathBase into ReadablePath and WritablePath
  • GH-128520: Divide pathlib ABCs into three classes #128523
• Make WritablePath a sibling (not subclass) of ReadablePath
  • GH-128520: Make pathlib._abc.WritablePath a sibling of ReadablePath #129014
• Add ReadablePath.info
  • GH-125413: Add pathlib.Path.info attribute #127730
• Subclass abc.ABC from JoinablePath, and make parser abstract
  • GH-128520: Subclass abc.ABC in pathlib._abc #128745
• Make type-checking more consistent
  • GH-128520: More consistent type-checking behaviour in pathlib #130199
• Move metadata reading into ReadablePath.info; remove ReadablePath._copy_reader
  • GH-125413: Add private metadata methods to pathlib.Path.info #129897
• Move metadata writing into WritablePath._write_info(); remove WritablePath._copy_writer
  • GH-125413: Add private pathlib.Path method to write metadata #130238
• Merge pathlib._abc into pathlib.types
  • GH-128520: Merge pathlib._abc into pathlib.types #130747
  • GH-128520: Merge pathlib._local into pathlib #130748
• Tests: replace the Dummy* classes with simple zipfile.Path-like implementation
  • GH-130614: pathlib ABCs: revise test suite for readable paths #131018
• Tests: add tests for WritablePath
  • GH-130614: pathlib ABCs: revise test suite for writable paths #131112
• Tests: parametrize copy() tests
  • GH-130614: pathlib ABCs: parametrize test suite for path copying #131168
• Finalise copy() 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 on pathlib-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: Subclass abc.ABC in pathlib._abc #128745
• GH-128520: Make pathlib._abc.WritablePath a sibling of ReadablePath #129014
• GH-128520: Read path metadata from pathlib.types.PathInfo when copying #129841
• GH-128520: More consistent type-checking behaviour in pathlib #130199
• GH-128520: Merge pathlib._abc into pathlib.types #130747
• GH-128520: Merge pathlib._local into pathlib #130748
• GH-128520: pathlib ABCs: fix with_name() handling of empty names #130964
• GH-128520: pathlib ABCs: allow tests to be run externally #131315
• GH-128520: pathlib ABCs: reject empty pattern in ReadablePath.glob() #127343
• GH-128520: pathlib ABCs: validate magic_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: add JoinablePath.__vfspath__() #133437
• GH-128520: pathlib ABCs: improve protocol for 'openable' objects #134101
• GH-128520: pathlib ABCs: tweak protocol for virtual path strings #134104