Since 6258844c, paths that might not exist can be fed into pathlib's
globbing implementation, which will call `os.scandir()` / `os.lstat()` only
when strictly necessary. This allows us to drop an initial `self.is_dir()`
call, which saves a `stat()`.
Co-authored-by: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com>
Replace tri-state `follow_symlinks` with boolean `recurse_symlinks` argument. The new argument controls whether symlinks are followed when expanding recursive `**` wildcards. The possible argument values correspond as follows:
follow_symlinks recurse_symlinks
=============== ================
False N/A
None False
True True
We therefore drop support for not following symlinks when expanding non-recursive pattern parts; it wasn't requested in the original issue, and it's a feature not found in any shells.
This makes the API a easier to grok by eliminating `None` as an option.
No news blurb as `follow_symlinks` was new in 3.13.
Explain the `full_match()` / `glob()` / `rglob()` pattern language in its own section. Move `rglob()` documentation under `glob()` and reduce duplicated text.
Return files and directories from `pathlib.Path.glob()` if the pattern ends
with `**`. This is more compatible with `PurePath.full_match()` and with
other glob implementations such as bash and `glob.glob()`. Users can add a
trailing slash to match only directories.
In my previous patch I added a `FutureWarning` with the intention of fixing
this in Python 3.15. Upon further reflection I think this was an
unnecessarily cautious remedy to a clear bug.
Add `ntpath.isreserved()`, which identifies reserved pathnames such as "NUL", "AUX" and "CON".
Deprecate `pathlib.PurePath.is_reserved()`.
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Co-authored-by: Eryk Sun <eryksun@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com>
In 49f90ba we added support for the recursive wildcard `**` in
`pathlib.PurePath.match()`. This should allow arbitrary prefix and suffix
matching, like `p.match('foo/**')` or `p.match('**/foo')`, but there's a
problem: for relative patterns only, `match()` implicitly inserts a `**`
token on the left hand side, causing all patterns to match from the right.
As a result, it's impossible to match relative patterns from the left:
`PurePath('foo/bar').match('bar/**')` is true!
This commit reverts the changes to `match()`, and instead adds a new
`full_match()` method that:
- Allows empty patterns
- Supports the recursive wildcard `**`
- Matches the *entire* path when given a relative pattern
Remove a double negative in the documentation of `mkdir()`'s *exist_ok*
parameter.
Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
Allow `os.PathLike` objects to be passed as patterns to `pathlib.Path.glob()` and `rglob()`. (It's already possible to use them in `PurePath.match()`)
While we're in the area:
- Allow empty glob patterns in `PathBase` (but not `Path`)
- Speed up globbing in `PathBase` by generating paths with trailing slashes only as a final step, rather than for every intermediate directory.
- Simplify and speed up handling of rare patterns involving both `**` and `..` segments.
This is a very soft deprecation of `PurePath.as_uri()`. We instead document
it as a `Path` method, and add a couple of sentences mentioning that it's
also available in `PurePath`.
Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
This method supports file URIs (including variants) as described in RFC 8089, such as URIs generated by `pathlib.Path.as_uri()` and `urllib.request.pathname2url()`.
The method is added to `Path` rather than `PurePath` because it uses `os.fsdecode()`, and so its results vary from system to system. I intend to deprecate `PurePath.as_uri()` and move it to `Path` for the same reason.
Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
Brings `pathlib.Path.is_dir()` and `in line with `os.DirEntry.is_dir()`, which
will be important for implementing generic path walking and globbing.
Likewise `is_file()`.
This new exception type is raised instead of `NotImplementedError` when
a path operation is not supported. It can be raised from `Path.readlink()`,
`symlink_to()`, `hardlink_to()`, `owner()` and `group()`. In a future
version of pathlib, it will be raised by `AbstractPath` for these methods
and others, such as `AbstractPath.mkdir()` and `unlink()`.
This commit introduces a 'walk-and-match' strategy for handling glob patterns that include a non-terminal `**` wildcard, such as `**/*.py`. For this example, the previous implementation recursively walked directories using `os.scandir()` when it expanded the `**` component, and then **scanned those same directories again** when expanded the `*.py` component. This is wasteful.
In the new implementation, any components following a `**` wildcard are used to build a `re.Pattern` object, which is used to filter the results of the recursive walk. A pattern like `**/*.py` uses half the number of `os.scandir()` calls; a pattern like `**/*/*.py` a third, etc.
This new algorithm does not apply if either:
1. The *follow_symlinks* argument is set to `None` (its default), or
2. The pattern contains `..` components.
In these cases we fall back to the old implementation.
This commit also replaces selector classes with selector functions. These generators directly yield results rather calling through to their successors. A new internal `Path._glob()` method takes care to chain these generators together, which simplifies the lazy algorithm and slightly improves performance. It should also be easier to understand and maintain.
`PurePath.match()` now handles the `**` wildcard as in `Path.glob()`, i.e. it matches any number of path segments.
We now compile a `re.Pattern` object for the entire pattern. This is made more difficult by `fnmatch` not treating directory separators as special when evaluating wildcards (`*`, `?`, etc), and so we arrange the path parts onto separate *lines* in a string, and ensure we don't set `re.DOTALL`.
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
Add a keyword-only *follow_symlinks* parameter to `pathlib.Path.glob()` and`rglob()`.
When *follow_symlinks* is `None` (the default), these methods follow symlinks except when evaluating "`**`" wildcards. When set to true or false, symlinks are always or never followed, respectively.
Add `pathlib.PurePath.with_segments()`, which creates a path object from arguments. This method is called whenever a derivative path is created, such as from `pathlib.PurePath.parent`. Subclasses may override this method to share information between path objects.
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
This argument allows case-sensitive matching to be enabled on Windows, and
case-insensitive matching to be enabled on Posix.
Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com>
The previous `_parse_args()` method pulled the `_parts` out of any supplied `PurePath` objects; these were subsequently joined in `_from_parts()` using `os.path.join()`. This is actually a slower form of joining than calling `fspath()` on the path object, because it doesn't take advantage of the fact that the contents of `_parts` is normalized!
This reduces the time taken to run `PurePath("foo", "bar")` by ~20%, and the time taken to run `PurePath(p, "cheese")`, where `p = PurePath("/foo", "bar", "baz")`, by ~40%.
Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:AlexWaygood
The documentation for `rglob` did not mention what `pattern` actually
is.
Mentioning and linking to `fnmatch` makes this explicit, as the
documentation for `fnmatch` both shows the syntax and some explanation.
The behaviour is fully explained a couple paragraphs above, but it may be useful to have a brief example to cover the behaviour.
Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:hauntsaninja
By default, :meth:`pathlib.PurePath.relative_to` doesn't deal with paths that are not a direct prefix of the other, raising an exception in that instance. This change adds a *walk_up* parameter that can be set to allow for using ``..`` to calculate the relative path.
example:
```
>>> p = PurePosixPath('/etc/passwd')
>>> p.relative_to('/etc')
PurePosixPath('passwd')
>>> p.relative_to('/usr')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "pathlib.py", line 940, in relative_to
raise ValueError(error_message.format(str(self), str(formatted)))
ValueError: '/etc/passwd' does not start with '/usr'
>>> p.relative_to('/usr', strict=False)
PurePosixPath('../etc/passwd')
```
https://bugs.python.org/issue40358
Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:brettcannon