The precursor path library [1] by J. Orendorff had the slash operator overloading trick a decade (or more) ago. [1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/path.py/1.2 ht

The precursor path library [1] by J. Orendorff had the slash operator overloading trick a decade (or more) ago. [1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/path.py/1.2 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/path.py/1.2