On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 1:26 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > They're specifically documented as not touching any file system, which > means that they are cross-platform and cannot be guaranteed to be > perfect. If you know you're running on Windows, use WindowsPath > instead (trying to do so on a non-Windows system will cause an > immediate exception), and then you can test your examples on that. It > may well already probe the file system in that situation, and if not, > you could put forward the feature suggestion that it should. But the > PurePath classes won't.
PureWindowsPath.is_reserved() delegates to self._flavour.is_reserved(), and _WindowsFlavour.is_reserved() is the common implementation. I don't like splitting this up between a pure and possibly inaccurate version that can be used on Unix systems versus a concrete and accurate version that can only be used on Windows. It can certainly be done if people think that's a good idea. Terry, I'll open an issue that includes the 3 examples I provided plus anything else I can find. Some patterns may emerge for the handling of space, dot, and colon that can be used to fix this in a general way. It would help to consult a reverse-engineered implementation of RtlGetFullPathName_Ustr and RtlIsDosDeviceName_Ustr. I'll check the ReactOS source code. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
