tomerfiliba · koreno · Aug 1, 2019 · Jul 9, 2019
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Unreleased
 -----
+* Paths: support composing paths using subscription operations (`#455 <https://github.com/tomerfiliba/plumbum/pull/455>`_)
 * CLI: Improved 'Set' validator to allow non-string types, and CSV params (`#452 <https://github.com/tomerfiliba/plumbum/pull/452>`_)
 * TypedEnv: Facility for modeling environment-variables into python data types (`#451 <https://github.com/tomerfiliba/plumbum/pull/450>`_)
 * Commands: execute local/remote commands via a magic `.cmd` attribute (`#450 <https://github.com/tomerfiliba/plumbum/pull/450>`_)

diff --git a/docs/paths.rst b/docs/paths.rst
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ with a few improvements and extra features.
     Paths now support more pathlib like syntax, several old names have been depreciated, like ``.basename``
 
 The primary ways to create paths are from ``.cwd``, ``.env.home``, or ``.path(...)`` on a local
-or remote machine, with ``/`` or ``//`` for composition.
+or remote machine, with ``/``, ``//`` or ``[]`` for composition.
 
 .. note::
 
@@ -43,14 +43,18 @@ Note that a name like ``file.name.10.15.tar.gz`` will have "5" suffixes.
 Also available is ``.with_name(name)``, which will will replace the entire name.
 ``preferred_suffix(suffix)`` will add a suffix if one does not exist (for default suffix situations). 
 
-Paths can be composed using ``/``::
+Paths can be composed using ``/`` or ``[]``::
 
     >>> p / "notepad.exe"
     <LocalPath c:\windows\notepad.exe>
     >>> (p / "notepad.exe").is_file()
     True
     >>> (p / "notepad.exe").with_suffix(".dll")
     <LocalPath c:\windows\notepad.dll>
+    >>> p["notepad.exe"].is_file()
+    True
+    >>> p["../some/path"]["notepad.exe"].with_suffix(".dll")
+    <LocalPath c:\windows\notepad.dll>
 
 
 You can also iterate over directories to get the contents::

diff --git a/plumbum/path/base.py b/plumbum/path/base.py
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ def __div__(self, other):
         return self.join(other)
 
     __truediv__ = __div__
+    __getitem__ = __div__
 
     def __floordiv__(self, expr):
         """Returns a (possibly empty) list of paths that matched the glob-pattern under this path"""

diff --git a/plumbum/path/remote.py b/plumbum/path/remote.py
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ def __new__(cls, remote, *parts):
         windows = (remote.uname.lower() == "windows")
         normed = []
 
+        parts = tuple(map(str, parts))  # force the paths into string, so subscription works properly
         # Simple skip if path is absolute
         if parts[0] and parts[0][0] not in ("/", "\\"):
             cwd = (remote._cwd if hasattr(remote, '_cwd') else

diff --git a/tests/test_local.py b/tests/test_local.py
@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ def test_iterdir(self):
         files = list(cwd.iterdir())
         assert cwd / 'test_local.py' in files
         assert cwd / 'test_remote.py' in files
+        assert cwd['test_local.py'] in files
+        assert cwd['test_remote.py'] in files
 
     def test_stem(self):
         assert self.longpath.stem == "file"
@@ -228,18 +230,18 @@ def test_path_dir(self):
     def test_mkdir(self):
         # (identical to test_remote.TestRemotePath.test_mkdir)
         with local.tempdir() as tmp:
-            (tmp / "a").mkdir(exist_ok=False, parents=False)
-            assert (tmp / "a").exists()
-            assert (tmp / "a").is_dir()
-            (tmp / "a").mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=False)
-            (tmp / "a").mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=True)
+            tmp["a"].mkdir(exist_ok=False, parents=False)
+            assert tmp["a"].exists()
+            assert tmp["a"].is_dir()
+            tmp["a"].mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=False)
+            tmp["a"].mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=True)
             with pytest.raises(OSError):
-                (tmp / "a").mkdir(exist_ok=False, parents=False)
+                tmp["a"].mkdir(exist_ok=False, parents=False)
             with pytest.raises(OSError):
-                (tmp / "a").mkdir(exist_ok=False, parents=True)
-            (tmp / "b" / "bb").mkdir(exist_ok=False, parents=True)
-            assert (tmp / "b" / "bb").exists()
-            assert (tmp / "b" / "bb").is_dir()
+                tmp["a"].mkdir(exist_ok=False, parents=True)
+            tmp["b"]["bb"].mkdir(exist_ok=False, parents=True)
+            assert tmp["b"]["bb"].exists()
+            assert tmp["b"]["bb"].is_dir()
         assert not tmp.exists()
 
     def test_mkdir_mode(self):