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+pathlib2
+========
+
+|jazzband| |github| |codecov|
+
+Fork of pathlib aiming to support the full stdlib Python API.
+
+The `old pathlib <https://web.archive.org/web/20181106215056/https://bitbucket.org/pitrou/pathlib/>`_
+module on bitbucket is no longer maintained.
+The goal of pathlib2 is to provide a backport of
+`standard pathlib <http://docs.python.org/dev/library/pathlib.html>`_
+module which tracks the standard library module,
+so all the newest features of the standard pathlib can be
+used also on older Python versions.
+
+Download
+--------
+
+Standalone releases are available on PyPI:
+http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pathlib2/
+
+Development
+-----------
+
+The main development takes place in the Python standard library: see
+the `Python developer's guide <http://docs.python.org/devguide/>`_.
+In particular, new features should be submitted to the
+`Python bug tracker <http://bugs.python.org/>`_.
+
+Issues that occur in this backport, but that do not occur not in the
+standard Python pathlib module can be submitted on
+the `pathlib2 bug tracker <https://github.com/jazzband/pathlib2/issues>`_.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+Refer to the
+`standard pathlib <http://docs.python.org/dev/library/pathlib.html>`_
+documentation.
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+For historic reasons, pathlib2 still uses bytes to represent file paths internally.
+Unfortunately, on Windows with Python 2.7, the file system encoder (``mcbs``)
+has only poor support for non-ascii characters,
+and can silently replace non-ascii characters without warning.
+For example, ``u'тест'.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())`` results in ``????``
+which is obviously completely useless.
+
+Therefore, on Windows with Python 2.7, until this problem is fixed upstream,
+unfortunately you cannot rely on pathlib2 to support the full unicode range for filenames.
+See `issue #56 <https://github.com/jazzband/pathlib2/issues/56>`_ for more details.
+
+.. |github| image:: https://github.com/jazzband/pathlib2/actions/workflows/python-package.yml/badge.svg
+   :target: https://github.com/jazzband/pathlib2/actions/workflows/python-package.yml
+   :alt: github
+
+.. |codecov| image:: https://codecov.io/gh/jazzband/pathlib2/branch/develop/graph/badge.svg
+    :target: https://codecov.io/gh/jazzband/pathlib2
+    :alt: codecov
+
+.. |jazzband| image:: https://jazzband.co/static/img/badge.svg
+   :alt: Jazzband
+   :target: https://jazzband.co/