New submission from Antony Lee:
Currently, pathlib contains the following check for the OS in the import
section:
try:
import nt
except ImportError:
nt = None
else:
if sys.getwindowsversion()[:2] >= (6, 0):
from nt import _getfinalpathname
else:
supports_symlinks = False
_getfinalpathname = None
I would like to suggest to switch this on testing for the value of `os.name`
(as `PurePath.__new__` does), or possibly testing whether
`sys.getwindowsversion` exists: the `nt` module is not publicly defined, so it
wouldn't be unreasonable to have a file named `nt.py` on an Unix system (where
this shouldn't cause any problems), in which case importing `pathlib` raises an
AttributeError at the `getwindowsversion` line.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 226644
nosy: Antony.Lee
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: pathlib OS detection
versions: Python 3.4, Python 3.5
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