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Expand Up @@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ right for your task, :class:`Path` is most likely what you need. It instantiates
a :ref:`concrete path <concrete-paths>` for the platform the code is running on.

Pure paths are useful in some special cases; for example:
#. Pure path objects provide path-handling operations which don't actually
access a filesystem.
Use pure paths when you need to manipulate path strings
without requiring the path to exist on disk,such as when generating paths
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This won't be indented correctly and has some formatting issues such as missing spaces.

I personally don't think it adds much that isn't already covered by the list of points (but that's really for someone else to decide - I have no say here)

for remote systems or validating path formats.

#. If you want to manipulate Windows paths on a Unix machine (or vice versa).
You cannot instantiate a :class:`WindowsPath` when running on Unix, but you
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