On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 1:30 AM Kirill Balunov <kirillbalu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all! It is expected that: > ``` > >>> import os > >>> from pathlib import Path > >>> dummy = " " # or "" or " " > >>> os.path.isdir(dummy) > False > >>> Path(dummy).is_dir() > True > ``` > > or was it overlooked? >
Was not aware of that. A bit of digging shows that asking to convert an empty path to an absolute one will give you the name of the current directory (whether you use os.path or pathlib.Path), but os.path.isdir starts by seeing if it can os.stat the given path, and if that fails, it returns False (because if something doesn't exist, it can't be a directory). As a workaround, you could simply call os.path.isdir(os.path.abspath(x)) to get consistent results. I'm not sure if this is considered an important enough bug to actually fix, or if it's merely a curiosity that occurs when you trigger undocumented behaviour. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
