bpo-43970: Optimize Path.cwd() in pathlib by not instantiating a class unnecessarily (GH-25699)

kfollstad · web-flow · commit 4a85718212fd · 2021-04-28T19:01:51.000-04:00
diff --git a/Lib/pathlib.py b/Lib/pathlib.py
@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ def cwd(cls):
         """Return a new path pointing to the current working directory
         (as returned by os.getcwd()).
         """
-        return cls(cls()._accessor.getcwd())
+        return cls(cls._accessor.getcwd())
 
     @classmethod
     def home(cls):
