Mailman 3 Add mechanism to check if a path is a junction (for Windows) - Python-ideas

7 Nov 2022

      Junctions are contextually similar to symlinks on Windows.

I propose adding a mechanism to both pathlib.Path and os.path to check if a given path is a junction or not. Currently is_symlink/islink return False for junctions.

Maybe isjunction in os.path and is_junction in pathlib.Path?

Part of me thinks about adding an junction_ok param to the existing islink and is_symlink since they are often similar in usage.

Thoughts?

Add mechanism to check if a path is a junction (for Windows)

Charles Machalow

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