Clarify that *target_is_directory* only matters if the target doesn't
exist.
(cherry picked from commit b822b85ac1)
Co-authored-by: Barney Gale <barney.gale@gmail.com>
Remove a double negative in the documentation of `mkdir()`'s *exist_ok*
parameter.
(cherry picked from commit 32c227470a)
Co-authored-by: Barney Gale <barney.gale@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
The behaviour is fully explained a couple paragraphs above, but it may be useful to have a brief example to cover the behaviour.
(cherry picked from commit 1ae619c911)
Co-authored-by: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com>
Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:hauntsaninja
* Add additional pointers to pathlib's mapping to os.path functions
os.path.splitext has a somewhat quirky signature since it mixes the path and filename components but I wanted the documentation to mention `PurePath.stem` as the natural counterpart to `PurePath.suffix` for the common use of `os.path.splitext` to turn "file.py" into "file" and "py".
Technically this could have some discussion of how to handle the parent directory hierarchy but that seems a bit out of keeping with the spirit of this table so I omitted mentioning `PurePath.parents` here.
* Update Doc/library/pathlib.rst
Co-authored-by: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 3789c63577)
Co-authored-by: Chris Adams <chris@improbable.org>
Documentation for `pathlib` says:
> Spurious slashes and single dots are collapsed, but double dots ('..') are not, since this would change the meaning of a path in the face of symbolic links:
However, it omits that initial double slashes also aren't collapsed.
Later, in documentation of `PurePath.drive`, `PurePath.root`, and `PurePath.name` it mentions UNC but:
- this abbreviation says nothing to a person who is unaware about existence of UNC (Wikipedia doesn't help either by [giving a disambiguation page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNC))
- it shows up only if a person needs to use a specific property or decides to fully learn what the module provides.
For context, see the BPO entry.
(cherry picked from commit 78f1a43694)
Co-authored-by: Oleg Iarygin <oleg@arhadthedev.net>
These are currently broken as they refer to :meth:`Path.relative_to` rather than :meth:`PurePath.relative_to`, and `relative_to` is a method on `PurePath`.
(cherry picked from commit 8ef7929baf)
Co-authored-by: jacksonriley <52106215+jacksonriley@users.noreply.github.com>
We could try to remedy this by taking a slice, but we then run into an issue where the empty string will match altsep on POSIX. That rabbit hole could keep getting deeper.
A proper fix for the original issue involves making pathlib's path normalisation more configurable - in this case we want to retain trailing slashes, but in other we might want to preserve `./` prefixes, or elide `../` segments when we're sure we won't encounter symlinks.
This reverts commit ea2f5bcda1.
(cherry picked from commit dcdf250d2d)
Co-authored-by: Barney Gale <barney.gale@gmail.com>
The argument order of `link_to()` is reversed compared to what one may expect, so:
a.link_to(b)
Might be expected to create *a* as a link to *b*, in fact it creates *b* as a link to *a*, making it function more like a "link from". This doesn't match `symlink_to()` nor the documentation and doesn't seem to be the original author's intent.
This PR deprecates `link_to()` and introduces `hardlink_to()`, which has the same argument order as `symlink_to()`.
This makes `ntpath.expanduser()` match `pathlib.Path.expanduser()` in this regard, and is more in line with `posixpath.expanduser()`'s cautious approach.
Also remove the near-duplicate implementation of `expanduser()` in pathlib, and by doing so fix a bug where KeyError could be raised when expanding another user's home directory.
This commit also fixes up some of the overlapping documentation changed
in bpo-35498, which added support for indexing with slices.
Fixes bpo-21041.
https://bugs.python.org/issue21041
Co-authored-by: Paul Ganssle <p.ganssle@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Rémi Lapeyre <remi.lapeyre@henki.fr>
Added slice support to the `pathlib.Path.parents` sequence. For a `Path` `p`, slices of `p.parents` should return the same thing as slices of `tuple(p.parents)`.
* Add _newline_ parameter to `pathlib.Path.write_text()`
* Update documentation of `pathlib.Path.write_text()`
* Add test case for `pathlib.Path.write_text()` calls with _newline_ parameter passed
Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:methane
Fixes Issue39285
The example incorrectly returned True for match.
Furthermore the example is ambiguous in its usage of PureWindowsPath.
Windows is case-insensitve, however the underlying match functionality
utilizes fnmatch.fnmatchcase.
Automerge-Triggered-By: @pitrou
This adds a "readlink" method to pathlib.Path objects that calls through
to os.readlink.
https://bugs.python.org/issue30618
Automerge-Triggered-By: @gpshead
Similarly to how several pathlib file creation functions have an "exists_ok" parameter, we should introduce "missing_ok" that makes removal functions not raise an exception when a file or directory is already absent. IMHO, this should cover Path.unlink and Path.rmdir. Note, Path.resolve() has a "strict" parameter since 3.6 that does the same thing. Naming this of this new parameter tries to be consistent with the "exists_ok" parameter as that is more explicit about what it does (as opposed to "strict").
https://bugs.python.org/issue33123
