How to check if a PosixPath is a directory or a file

Question

With Path I can run path.is_dir() , how can I do the same thing with PosixPath ?

Answer 1

How can I do the same thing with PosixPath ?

Exactly the same way. PosixPath extends Path so has all the underlying methods:

Python 3.9.0 (default, Oct 12 2020, 02:44:01)
[GCC 9.3.0] on linux
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>>> import pathlib, os

>>> pathlib.PosixPath("/").is_dir()
True

>>> os.system("touch /tmp/aFile.txt")

>>> pathlib.PosixPath("/tmp/aFile.txt").is_dir()
False

>>> pathlib.PosixPath("/tmp/aFile.txt").is_file()
True