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barneygale

opened on Dec 28, 2022

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The current implementation of pathlib.Path.absolute() calls self.cwd() rather than os.getcwd(), and so constructs two Path objects rather than one. As path objects are slow to construct, this has a performance impact.

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• gh-100562: improve performance of pathlib.Path.absolute() #100563

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1. barneygale

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   type-featureA feature request or enhancementA feature request or enhancement

   on Dec 28, 2022
2. AlexWaygood

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   performancePerformance or resource usagePerformance or resource usage

   topic-pathlib

   3.12only security fixesonly security fixes

   on Dec 28, 2022
3. barneygale

   added a commit that references this issue on Dec 28, 2022

   pythongh-100562: improve performance of `pathlib.Path.absolute()`

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4. AlexWaygood

   added a commit that references this issue on Jan 5, 2023

   Merge branch 'main' into pythongh-100562-path-absolute-perf

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5. AlexWaygood

   linked a pull request that will close this issuegh-100562: improve performance of `pathlib.Path.absolute()` #100563on Jan 5, 2023
6. miss-islington

   closed this as completedin #100563on Jan 5, 2023
7. miss-islington

   added a commit that references this issue on Jan 5, 2023

   gh-100562: improve performance of `pathlib.Path.absolute()` (GH-100563)

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