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
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
Barney Gale
Mariusz Felisiak
Taylor Packard
Alex Waygood
Kamil Turek
Junya Okabe
Ned Batchelder
thirumurugan
Hugo van Kemenade
andrei kulakov
Furkan Onder
Jürgen Gmach
Shantanu
Charles Machalow
Mateusz
domragusa
Julien Palard
Ansab Gillani
Stanislav Zmiev