AssetPath doesn't implement parent

It implements the documented Traversable interface, but it doesn't implement the undocumented SimplePath interface used by importlib.metadata. This causes an exception from this code in numpy/testing/_private/utils.py:

np_dist = importlib.metadata.distribution('numpy')
....
np_dist.locate_file('numpy')

  File "/data/data/com.chaquo.python.pkgtest3/files/chaquopy/AssetFinder/requirements/numpy/testing/_private/utils.py", line 86, in <module>
  File "stdlib/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 922, in locate_file
AttributeError: 'AssetPath' object has no attribute 'parent'

Review all Path properties and methods to see if there's anything else we should add at the same time.

The following workaround is good enough for numpy. In the production fix, we should also make it possible to traverse out of the importer root and get a normal Path object.

@property
def parent(self):
    return type(self)(str(self).rpartition("/")[0])

from java.android import importer
importer.AssetPath.parent = parent

#1471 suggests that dirname may be simpler than rpartition, but check first whether they're totally equivalent.

Review all Path properties and methods to see if there's anything else we should add at the same time.

There are far too many of them, but in theory nothing should be depending on anything except for the methods of Traversable and SimplePath. In fact, we've had no reports of any missing members affecting anyone except via importlib.metadata, which is even more likely to respect the limited interface.

Implement AssetPath.parent (closes chaquo#1433)

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AssetPath doesn't implement `parent` #1433