gh-99547: Add isjunction methods for checking if a path is a junction (GH-99548)

Author: csm10495

Doc/library/os.path.rst

@@ -266,6 +266,15 @@ the :mod:`glob` module.)
       Accepts a :term:`path-like object`.
 
 
+.. function:: isjunction(path)
+
+   Return ``True`` if *path* refers to an :func:`existing <lexists>` directory
+   entry that is a junction.  Always return ``False`` if junctions are not
+   supported on the current platform.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.12
+
+
 .. function:: islink(path)
 
    Return ``True`` if *path* refers to an :func:`existing <exists>` directory

Doc/library/os.rst

@@ -2738,6 +2738,17 @@ features:
       This method can raise :exc:`OSError`, such as :exc:`PermissionError`,
       but :exc:`FileNotFoundError` is caught and not raised.
 
+   .. method:: is_junction()
+
+      Return ``True`` if this entry is a junction (even if broken);
+      return ``False`` if the entry points to a regular directory, any kind
+      of file, a symlink, or if it doesn't exist anymore.
+
+      The result is cached on the ``os.DirEntry`` object. Call
+      :func:`os.path.isjunction` to fetch up-to-date information.
+
+      .. versionadded:: 3.12
+
    .. method:: stat(*, follow_symlinks=True)
 
       Return a :class:`stat_result` object for this entry. This method
@@ -2760,8 +2771,8 @@ features:
    Note that there is a nice correspondence between several attributes
    and methods of ``os.DirEntry`` and of :class:`pathlib.Path`.  In
    particular, the ``name`` attribute has the same
-   meaning, as do the ``is_dir()``, ``is_file()``, ``is_symlink()``
-   and ``stat()`` methods.
+   meaning, as do the ``is_dir()``, ``is_file()``, ``is_symlink()``,
+   ``is_junction()``, and ``stat()`` methods.
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.5
 

Doc/library/pathlib.rst

@@ -891,6 +891,14 @@ call fails (for example because the path doesn't exist).
    other errors (such as permission errors) are propagated.
 
 
+.. method:: Path.is_junction()
+
+   Return ``True`` if the path points to a junction, and ``False`` for any other
+   type of file. Currently only Windows supports junctions.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.12
+
+
 .. method:: Path.is_mount()
 
    Return ``True`` if the path is a :dfn:`mount point`: a point in a

Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst

@@ -234,6 +234,10 @@ pathlib
   more consistent with :func:`os.path.relpath`.
   (Contributed by Domenico Ragusa in :issue:`40358`.)
 
+* Add :meth:`pathlib.Path.is_junction` as a proxy to :func:`os.path.isjunction`.
+  (Contributed by Charles Machalow in :gh:`99547`.)
+
+
 dis
 ---
 
@@ -252,6 +256,14 @@ os
   for a process with :func:`os.pidfd_open` in non-blocking mode.
   (Contributed by Kumar Aditya in :gh:`93312`.)
 
+* Add :func:`os.path.isjunction` to check if a given path is a junction.
+  (Contributed by Charles Machalow in :gh:`99547`.)
+
+* :class:`os.DirEntry` now includes an :meth:`os.DirEntry.is_junction`
+  method to check if the entry is a junction.
+  (Contributed by Charles Machalow in :gh:`99547`.)
+
+
 shutil
 ------
 

Lib/ntpath.py

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
            "ismount", "expanduser","expandvars","normpath","abspath",
            "curdir","pardir","sep","pathsep","defpath","altsep",
            "extsep","devnull","realpath","supports_unicode_filenames","relpath",
-           "samefile", "sameopenfile", "samestat", "commonpath"]
+           "samefile", "sameopenfile", "samestat", "commonpath", "isjunction"]
 
 def _get_bothseps(path):
     if isinstance(path, bytes):
@@ -267,6 +267,24 @@ def islink(path):
         return False
     return stat.S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)
 
+
+# Is a path a junction?
+
+if hasattr(os.stat_result, 'st_reparse_tag'):
+    def isjunction(path):
+        """Test whether a path is a junction"""
+        try:
+            st = os.lstat(path)
+        except (OSError, ValueError, AttributeError):
+            return False
+        return bool(st.st_reparse_tag == stat.IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT)
+else:
+    def isjunction(path):
+        """Test whether a path is a junction"""
+        os.fspath(path)
+        return False
+
+
 # Being true for dangling symbolic links is also useful.
 
 def lexists(path):

Lib/pathlib.py

@@ -1223,6 +1223,12 @@ def is_symlink(self):
             # Non-encodable path
             return False
 
+    def is_junction(self):
+        """
+        Whether this path is a junction.
+        """
+        return self._flavour.pathmod.isjunction(self)
+
     def is_block_device(self):
         """
         Whether this path is a block device.

Lib/posixpath.py

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
            "samefile","sameopenfile","samestat",
            "curdir","pardir","sep","pathsep","defpath","altsep","extsep",
            "devnull","realpath","supports_unicode_filenames","relpath",
-           "commonpath"]
+           "commonpath", "isjunction"]
 
 
 def _get_sep(path):
@@ -169,6 +169,16 @@ def islink(path):
         return False
     return stat.S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)
 
+
+# Is a path a junction?
+
+def isjunction(path):
+    """Test whether a path is a junction
+    Junctions are not a part of posix semantics"""
+    os.fspath(path)
+    return False
+
+
 # Being true for dangling symbolic links is also useful.
 
 def lexists(path):

Lib/shutil.py

@@ -565,18 +565,6 @@ def copytree(src, dst, symlinks=False, ignore=None, copy_function=copy2,
                      dirs_exist_ok=dirs_exist_ok)
 
 if hasattr(os.stat_result, 'st_file_attributes'):
-    # Special handling for directory junctions to make them behave like
-    # symlinks for shutil.rmtree, since in general they do not appear as
-    # regular links.
-    def _rmtree_isdir(entry):
-        try:
-            st = entry.stat(follow_symlinks=False)
-            return (stat.S_ISDIR(st.st_mode) and not
-                (st.st_file_attributes & stat.FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT
-                 and st.st_reparse_tag == stat.IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT))
-        except OSError:
-            return False
-
     def _rmtree_islink(path):
         try:
             st = os.lstat(path)
@@ -586,12 +574,6 @@ def _rmtree_islink(path):
         except OSError:
             return False
 else:
-    def _rmtree_isdir(entry):
-        try:
-            return entry.is_dir(follow_symlinks=False)
-        except OSError:
-            return False
-
     def _rmtree_islink(path):
         return os.path.islink(path)
 
@@ -605,7 +587,12 @@ def _rmtree_unsafe(path, onerror):
         entries = []
     for entry in entries:
         fullname = entry.path
-        if _rmtree_isdir(entry):
+        try:
+            is_dir = entry.is_dir(follow_symlinks=False)
+        except OSError:
+            is_dir = False
+
+        if is_dir and not entry.is_junction():
             try:
                 if entry.is_symlink():
                     # This can only happen if someone replaces

Lib/test/test_ntpath.py

@@ -856,6 +856,23 @@ def test_nt_helpers(self):
             self.assertIsInstance(b_final_path, bytes)
             self.assertGreater(len(b_final_path), 0)
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform != 'win32', "Can only test junctions with creation on win32.")
+    def test_isjunction(self):
+        with os_helper.temp_dir() as d:
+            with os_helper.change_cwd(d):
+                os.mkdir('tmpdir')
+
+                import _winapi
+                try:
+                    _winapi.CreateJunction('tmpdir', 'testjunc')
+                except OSError:
+                    raise unittest.SkipTest('creating the test junction failed')
+
+                self.assertTrue(ntpath.isjunction('testjunc'))
+                self.assertFalse(ntpath.isjunction('tmpdir'))
+                self.assertPathEqual(ntpath.realpath('testjunc'), ntpath.realpath('tmpdir'))
+
+
 class NtCommonTest(test_genericpath.CommonTest, unittest.TestCase):
     pathmodule = ntpath
     attributes = ['relpath']

Lib/test/test_os.py

@@ -4158,6 +4158,8 @@ def check_entry(self, entry, name, is_dir, is_file, is_symlink):
         self.assertEqual(entry.is_file(follow_symlinks=False),
                          stat.S_ISREG(entry_lstat.st_mode))
 
+        self.assertEqual(entry.is_junction(), os.path.isjunction(entry.path))
+
         self.assert_stat_equal(entry.stat(),
                                entry_stat,
                                os.name == 'nt' and not is_symlink)
@@ -4206,6 +4208,21 @@ def test_attributes(self):
             entry = entries['symlink_file.txt']
             self.check_entry(entry, 'symlink_file.txt', False, True, True)
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform != 'win32', "Can only test junctions with creation on win32.")
+    def test_attributes_junctions(self):
+        dirname = os.path.join(self.path, "tgtdir")
+        os.mkdir(dirname)
+
+        import _winapi
+        try:
+            _winapi.CreateJunction(dirname, os.path.join(self.path, "srcjunc"))
+        except OSError:
+            raise unittest.SkipTest('creating the test junction failed')
+
+        entries = self.get_entries(['srcjunc', 'tgtdir'])
+        self.assertEqual(entries['srcjunc'].is_junction(), True)
+        self.assertEqual(entries['tgtdir'].is_junction(), False)
+
     def get_entry(self, name):
         path = self.bytes_path if isinstance(name, bytes) else self.path
         entries = list(os.scandir(path))