On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 07:31:36PM -0000, Charles Machalow wrote: > I propose adding a mechanism to both pathlib.Path and os.path to check > if a given path is a junction or not. Currently is_symlink/islink > return False for junctions.
+1 on a function is_junction. I am neutral on the question of whether that function should: 1. only exist on Windows, 2. or exist on other platforms but always return False. Prior art suggests the second is probably better: when Python doesn't support symbolic links, `os.islink` exists but always returns False. https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html#os.path.islink I am also neutral on whether ismount() on Windows should always return True for junctions, as well as mount points. I leave that to Windows experts to decide. -1 on adding a flag parameter to existing functions. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/M36XXF4QZ6VJJSTEDPOTAGEODC35NVLM/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
