Difference between "joinpath" and "/" in Pathlib

Question

Is there a difference between joinpath and the / operator in the pathlib module? The documentation doesn't ever compare the two methods. Essentially are there any cases where these two are different?

Example:

from pathlib import Path

foo = Path("some_path")
foo_bar_operator = foo / "bar"
foo_bar_joinpath = foo.joinpath("bar")

foo_bar_operator == foo_bar_joinpath
# Returns: True

Answer 1

There is no difference. The source code confirms this:

    def joinpath(self, *args):
        """Combine this path with one or several arguments, and return a
        new path representing either a subpath (if all arguments are relative
        paths) or a totally different path (if one of the arguments is
        anchored).
        """
        return self._make_child(args)

    def __truediv__(self, key):
        try:
            return self._make_child((key,))
        except TypeError:
            return NotImplemented

Note you can pass multiple arguments to joinpath e.g. a.joinpath(b, c, d). The equivalent for / would be a / b / c / d.