Use pathlib everywhere we can (#7872)

* Use pathlib everywhere we can

* Update lib/python/qmk/path.py

Co-Authored-By: Erovia <Erovia@users.noreply.github.com>

* Update lib/python/qmk/path.py

Co-Authored-By: Erovia <Erovia@users.noreply.github.com>

* Improvements based on @erovia's feedback

* rework qmk compile and qmk flash to use pathlib

* style

* Remove the subcommand_name argument from find_keyboard_keymap()

Co-authored-by: Erovia <Erovia@users.noreply.github.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/python/qmk/constants.py b/lib/python/qmk/constants.py
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+"""Information that should be available to the python library.
+"""
+from pathlib import Path
+
+# The root of the qmk_firmware tree.
+QMK_FIRMWARE = Path.cwd()
+
+# This is the number of directories under `qmk_firmware/keyboards` that will be traversed. This is currently a limitation of our make system.
+MAX_KEYBOARD_SUBFOLDERS = 5