PathRoot

What is PathRoot?

A PathRoot object is a subclass of pathlib.Path. It takes an extra safe_root= keyword argument to set a trusted root, and prevents operations that traverse outside of the trusted root.

How do you use PathRoot?

You can initialize a PathRoot object like this:

from pathroot import PathRoot

root = PathRoot('/Users/foo/bar', safe_root='/Users/foo/bar')
root = PathRoot('/Users/foo/bar')  # This also works.

From there, you can do anything you can do with a Path object. For instance:

my_file = root / 'groceries.txt'  # This would work.
my_file = root / '..' / '..' / 'groceries.txt'  # This would raise a `PathOutsideRootError` exception.