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Is there some kind of slash operator making this statement work? Is this a way to concatenate things?

train_path = datasets_root / dataset / 'train'

Python allows the overriding of just about every operator. For Pathlib they overrode the division operator to instead perform path addition in a platform agnostic manner.

> Python allows the overriding of just about every operator.

Except the boolean operators (and, or, not). For instance __and__ overrides the binary and (&), not the boolean and.

That's True, but you _can_ override __bool__.[1]

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__...

pathlib[1] has been in the standard library since Python 3.4. It can do this.[2]

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#basic-use

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