Eryk Sun <[email protected]> added the comment:
> IsADirectoryError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: 'not_a_dir/'
The trailing slash forces the OS to handle "not_a_dir" as a directory [1].
A pathname that contains at least one non- <slash> character and that
ends with one or more trailing <slash> characters shall not be resolved
successfully unless the last pathname component before the trailing
<slash> characters names an existing directory or a directory entry
that is to be created for a directory immediately after the pathname is
resolved.
Mode "w" corresponds to low-level POSIX open() flags O_CREAT | O_TRUNC |
O_WRONLY. If write access is requested for a directory, the open() system call
must fail with EISDIR [2].
[EISDIR]
The named file is a directory and oflag includes O_WRONLY or O_RDWR,
or includes O_CREAT without O_DIRECTORY.
In most cases, opening a directory with O_CREAT also fails with E_ISDIR. POSIX
does permit an implementation to create a directory with O_CREAT | O_DIRECTORY.
In Linux, however, O_CREAT always creates a regular file, regardless of
O_DIRECTORY, so open(pathname, O_CREAT | flags) always fails with EISDIR when
pathname is an existing directory or names a directory by way of a trailing
slash.
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[1]
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap04.html#tag_04_13
[2] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/open.html
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