On 11/7/22, Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     def isjunction(path):
>         """Test whether a path is a junction.
>         """
>         try:
>             st = os.lstat(path)
>         except (OSError, ValueError, AttributeError):
>             return False
>         return bool(st.st_reparse_tag & stat.IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT)

The bitwise AND check in the above is wrong. It should check whether
the tag *equals* IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT. Sorry, this was an
editing mistake when I simplified the expression to remove a redundant
check of st_file_attributes.

This idea is being developed for Python 3.12:

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/99547
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/99548
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