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gh-68320, gh-88302 - Allow for private `pathlib.Path` subclassing (GH-31691)

Users may wish to define subclasses of `pathlib.Path` to add or modify
existing methods. Before this change, attempting to instantiate a subclass
raised an exception like:

    AttributeError: type object 'PPath' has no attribute '_flavour'

Previously the `_flavour` attribute was assigned as follows:

    PurePath._flavour        = xxx not set!! xxx
    PurePosixPath._flavour   = _PosixFlavour()
    PureWindowsPath._flavour = _WindowsFlavour()

This change replaces it with a `_pathmod` attribute, set as follows:

    PurePath._pathmod        = os.path
    PurePosixPath._pathmod   = posixpath
    PureWindowsPath._pathmod = ntpath

Functionality from `_PosixFlavour` and `_WindowsFlavour` is moved into
`PurePath` as underscored-prefixed classmethods. Flavours are removed.

Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Eryk Sun <eryksun@gmail.com>
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Barney Gale committed
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Parent: 5d84966
Committed by GitHub <noreply@github.com> on 12/23/2022, 10:52:23 PM