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.
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They're taking a route that is intended to prevent legal challenges in the future. It makes quite a bit of sense.
I'd be very interested to see what others have to say about this, I doubt if it is a very uncommon problem at the moment.