How do i remove '/' from the path without using string manipulation and using pathlib

Question

I have a path say path = pathlib.Path('/home/user/dir1/some.txt')

>>> path
PosixPath('/home/user/dir1/some.txt')

How do i get only home/user/dir1 and not the 1st '/' ?

If i use path.parent it will give me

>>> path.parent
PosixPath('/home/user/dir1')

How do i eliminate the 1st '/' from the path ?

I don't want to do any string manipulation like lstrip('/') Is there any way to do this using pathlib.Path ?

Thanks in advance...!

Answer 1

you could use relative_to:

from pathlib import Path

some_path = Path("/home/user/dir1/some.txt")
print(some_path.relative_to("/"))

or

root = Path("/")
print(some_path.relative_to(root))

or even

print(some_path.relative_to(some_path.root))

all of these return PosixPath('home/user/dir1/some.txt') (and print home/user/dir1/some.txt).