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
Have `pathlib.WindowsPath.is_mount()` call `ntpath.ismount()`. Previously it raised `NotImplementedError` unconditionally.
https://bugs.python.org/issue42777
The r in `rglob` stands for "recursively", so use the word in the description. Also, glob and rglob can usefully be mentioned as the pathlib equivalent of os.walk.
Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:brettcannon
* 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>
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.
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`.
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.
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
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