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Title: Add os.path.isreserved() function
Type: enhancement Stage:
Components: Library (Lib) Versions:
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Status: open Resolution:
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Assigned To: Nosy List: barneygale
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2021-06-12 19:52 by barneygale, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin.

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msg395702 - (view) Author: Barney Gale (barneygale) * Date: 2021-06-12 19:52 
Windows reserves certain filenames like 'NUL'. Checking for these names is part of a small handful of functionality that is available in pathlib but not in os.path.

I propose that we add an os.path.isreserved() function, encorporating Eryk Sun's work on bpo-27827. We then adjust pathlib to call the new function.

By doing so, we move one of the few remaining OS-specific implementations in pathlib to low-level libraries (posixpath, ntpath) where it arguably belongs.

We also make this functionality available to the segment of people using traditional string-based path operations who don't want to dip their toes into pathlib just for reserved names.
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2022-04-11 14:59:46adminsetgithub: 88569
2021-06-12 19:52:47barneygalecreate