On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:44 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Trying to be" cross-platform? The point of these path modules is to > *be* cross-platform. I can't call Windows APIs on my Linux box (short > of messing around with VMs or Wine or something, which are > dependencies that Python doesn't need). So yes, these *are* > cross-platform, and that's not scary, that's deliberate design.
Sorry for the wording SNAFU there. Of course it's cross-platform. But I think it's a dubious check. On Windows itself I would never try what it's attempting to do. I would just call GetFullPathName to see if the path changes to use the \\.\ device namespace. I doubt that the 3 examples I gave are the only places that this simplistic implementation of 'is_reserved" fails. It's giving a dangerous impression to the user that the path will be safe to use on Windows when that's not the case. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
