Difference between os.path.isdir and Path.is_dir
Chris Angelico
rosuav at gmail.com
Thu Jul 25 13:43:51 EDT 2019
On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 3:28 AM eryk sun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/25/19, Kirill Balunov <kirillbalunov at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>>> import os
> >>>> from pathlib import Path
> >>>> dummy = " " # or "" or " "
> >>>> os.path.isdir(dummy)
> > False
> >>>> Path(dummy).is_dir()
> > True
>
> I can't reproduce the above result in either Linux or Windows. The
> results should only be different for an empty path string, since
> Path('') is the same as Path('.'). The results should be the same for
> Path(" "), depending on whether a directory named " " exists (normally
> not allowed in Windows, but Linux allows it).
Try an empty string, no spaces. To pathlib.Path, that means the
current directory. To os.path.abspath, that means the current
directory. To os.stat, it doesn't exist.
ChrisA
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