Right now it calls islink(), which does an lstat, and then does its own lstat on the same path. This can be optimized by inlining the body of islink and reusing the stat result.

(This has been identified as an actual issue in openstack-swift https://review.openstack.org/#/c/37929/ )

Attached is a simple first pass at a diff against 2.7, shoudl be easy to port it to default.

Addresses the review comments: returns to catching all oserrors

LGTM

Attached patch is against default. I don't have my ssh keys set up for this machine, so if someone else could land I'd be appreciative :)

(Not sure if this qualifies for a backport)

Benjamin probably has the final say on backporting this to 2.7. I'm doing the 3.3/default commit right now.

New changeset 240adc564539 by Brian Curtin in branch 'default':
Fix #18530. Remove extra stat call from posixpath.ismount
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/240adc564539

^That takes care of default. I misspoke in an earlier comment about 3.3 - that should probably be determined by that RM (Georg?)

Ok, this was landed, 3.3 is no longer open so closing this.