scripts: Add some additional checks for pathlib

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/dev/misc_checks.py b/scripts/dev/misc_checks.py
index 91baec926..3a93b05e1 100644
--- a/scripts/dev/misc_checks.py
+++ b/scripts/dev/misc_checks.py
@@ -247,7 +247,23 @@ def check_spelling(args: argparse.Namespace) -> Optional[bool]:
         (
             re.compile(fr'qtbot\.(?!{qtbot_excludes})[a-z]+[A-Z].*'),
             "use snake-case instead",
-        )
+        ),
+        (
+            re.compile(r'\.joinpath\('),
+            "use the / operator for joining paths",
+        ),
+        (
+            re.compile(r"""pathlib\.Path\(["']~["']\)\.expanduser\(\)"""),
+            "use pathlib.Path.home() instead",
+        ),
+        (
+            re.compile(r'pathlib\.Path\(tmp_path\)'),
+            "tmp_path already is a pathlib.Path",
+        ),
+        (
+            re.compile(r'pathlib\.Path\(tmpdir\)'),
+            "use tmp_path instead",
+        ),
     ]
 
     # Files which should be ignored, e.g. because they come from another