Rename `pathlib.Path.copy()` to `_copy_file()` (i.e. make it private.)
Rename `pathlib.Path.copytree()` to `copy()`, and add support for copying
non-directories. This simplifies the interface for users, and nicely
complements the upcoming `move()` and `delete()` methods (which will also
accept any type of file.)
Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
Rename `pathlib.Path.rmtree()` to `delete()`, and add support for deleting
non-directories. This simplifies the interface for users, and nicely
complements the upcoming `move()` and `copy()` methods (which will also
accept any type of file.)
Add *preserve_metadata* keyword-only argument to `pathlib.Path.copytree()`,
defaulting to false. When set to true, we copy timestamps, permissions,
extended attributes and flags where available, like `shutil.copystat()`.
Add a `Path.rmtree()` method that removes an entire directory tree, like
`shutil.rmtree()`. The signature of the optional *on_error* argument
matches the `Path.walk()` argument of the same name, but differs from the
*onexc* and *onerror* arguments to `shutil.rmtree()`. Consistency within
pathlib is probably more important.
In the private pathlib ABCs, we add an implementation based on `walk()`.
Co-authored-by: Bénédikt Tran <10796600+picnixz@users.noreply.github.com>
Add *preserve_metadata* keyword-only argument to `pathlib.Path.copy()`, defaulting to false. When set to true, we copy timestamps, permissions, extended attributes and flags where available, like `shutil.copystat()`. The argument has no effect on Windows, where metadata is always copied.
Internally (in the pathlib ABCs), path types gain `_readable_metadata` and `_writable_metadata` attributes. These sets of strings describe what kinds of metadata can be retrieved and stored. We take an intersection of `source._readable_metadata` and `target._writable_metadata` to minimise reads/writes. A new `_read_metadata()` method accepts a set of metadata keys and returns a dict with those keys, and a new `_write_metadata()` method accepts a dict of metadata. We *might* make these public in future, but it's hard to justify while the ABCs are still private.
Check for `ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER` when calling `_winapi.CopyFile2()` and
raise `UnsupportedOperation`. In `Path.copy()`, handle this exception and
fall back to the `PathBase.copy()` implementation.
Add `pathlib.Path.copytree()` method, which recursively copies one
directory to another.
This differs from `shutil.copytree()` in the following respects:
1. Our method has a *follow_symlinks* argument, whereas shutil's has a
*symlinks* argument with an inverted meaning.
2. Our method lacks something like a *copy_function* argument. It always
uses `Path.copy()` to copy files.
3. Our method lacks something like a *ignore_dangling_symlinks* argument.
Instead, users can filter out danging symlinks with *ignore*, or
ignore exceptions with *on_error*
4. Our *ignore* argument is a callable that accepts a single path object,
whereas shutil's accepts a path and a list of child filenames.
5. We add an *on_error* argument, which is a callable that accepts
an `OSError` instance. (`Path.walk()` also accepts such a callable).
Co-authored-by: Nice Zombies <nineteendo19d0@gmail.com>
Add support for not following symlinks in `pathlib.Path.copy()`.
On Windows we add the `COPY_FILE_COPY_SYMLINK` flag is following symlinks is disabled. If the source is symlink to a directory, this call will fail with `ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED`. In this case we add `COPY_FILE_DIRECTORY` to the flags and retry. This can fail on old Windowses, which we note in the docs.
No news as `copy()` was only just added.
Add a `Path.copy()` method that copies the content of one file to another.
This method is similar to `shutil.copyfile()` but differs in the following ways:
- Uses `fcntl.FICLONE` where available (see GH-81338)
- Uses `os.copy_file_range` where available (see GH-81340)
- Uses `_winapi.CopyFile2` where available, even though this copies more metadata than the other implementations. This makes `WindowsPath.copy()` more similar to `shutil.copy2()`.
The method is presently _less_ specified than the `shutil` functions to allow OS-specific optimizations that might copy more or less metadata.
Incorporates code from GH-81338 and GH-93152.
Co-authored-by: Eryk Sun <eryksun@gmail.com>
In `glob._Globber`, move pathlib-specific methods to `pathlib._abc.PathGlobber` and replace them with abstract methods. Rename `glob._Globber` to `glob._GlobberBase`. As a result, the `glob` module is no longer befouled by code that can only ever apply to pathlib.
No change of behaviour.
Add private `posixpath._realpath()` function, which is a generic version of `realpath()` that can be parameterised with string tokens (`sep`, `curdir`, `pardir`) and query functions (`getcwd`, `lstat`, `readlink`). Also add support for limiting the number of symlink traversals.
In the private `pathlib._abc.PathBase` class, call `posixpath._realpath()` and remove our re-implementation of the same algorithm.
No change to any public APIs, either in `posixpath` or `pathlib`.
Co-authored-by: Nice Zombies <nineteendo19d0@gmail.com>
For silly reasons, pathlib's generic implementation of `walk()` currently
resides in `glob._Globber`. This commit moves it into
`pathlib._abc.PathBase.walk()` where it really belongs, and makes
`pathlib.Path.walk()` call `os.walk()`.
pathlib now treats "`.`" as a valid file extension (suffix). This brings
it in line with `os.path.splitext()`.
In the (private) pathlib ABCs, we add a new `ParserBase.splitext()` method
that splits a path into a `(root, ext)` pair, like `os.path.splitext()`.
This method is called by `PurePathBase.stem`, `suffix`, etc. In a future
version of pathlib, we might make these base classes public, and so users
will be able to define their own `splitext()` method to control file
extension splitting.
In `pathlib.PurePath` we add optimised `stem`, `suffix` and `suffixes`
properties that don't use `splitext()`, which avoids computing the path
base name twice.
Suppress all `OSError` exceptions from `pathlib.Path.exists()` and `is_*()`
rather than a selection of more common errors as we do presently. Also
adjust the implementations to call `os.path.exists()` etc, which are much
faster on Windows thanks to GH-101196.
Remove support for supplying additional positional arguments to
`PurePath.relative_to()` and `is_relative_to()`. This has been deprecated
since Python 3.12.
Moving this code under the `pathlib` package makes it quite a lot easier
to backport in the `pathlib-abc` PyPI package. It was a bit foolish of me
to add it to `glob` in the first place.
Also add `translate()` to `__all__` in `glob`. This function is new in
3.13, so there's no NEWS needed.
* docs: tiny grammar change: "pointed by" -> "pointed to by"
This commit uses "file pointed to by" to replace "file pointed by" in
- doc for shutil.copytree
- docstring for shutil.copytree
- docstring _abc.PathBase.open
- docstring for pathlib.Path.open
- doc for os.copy_file_range
- doc for os.splice
The docs use "file pointed to by" more frequently than
"file pointed by". So, this commit replaces the uses of
"file pointed by" in order to make the uses consistent
through the docs.
```bash
$ grep -ri 'pointed to by' cpython/
```
yields more results than
```bash
$ grep -ri 'pointed by' cpython/
```
Separately:
There are two occurrences of "tree pointed by":
- cpython/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst for
`xml.etree.ElementInclude.include`
- cpython/Lib/xml/etree/ElementInclude.py for `include`
For those uses of "tree pointed by", I expect "tree pointed to by"
instead. However, I found enough uses online of (a) "tree pointed by"
rather than (b) "tree pointed to by" to convince me that (a) is in
common use.
So, this commit does not replace those occurrences of "tree pointed by"
to "tree pointed to by". But I will replace them if a reviewer
believes it is correct to replace them.
* docs: typo: "exists and executable" -> "exists and is executable"
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Co-authored-by: Andrew-Zipperer <atzipperer@gmail.com>
The second item in the tuple returned from `__reduce__()` is a tuple of arguments to supply to path constructor. Previously we returned the `parts` tuple here, which entailed joining, parsing and normalising the path object, and produced a compact pickle representation.
With this patch, we instead return a tuple of paths that were originally given to the path constructor. This makes pickling much faster (at the expense of compactness).
It's worth noting that, in the olden times, pathlib performed this parsing/normalization up-front in every case, and so using `parts` for pickling was almost free. Nowadays pathlib only parses/normalises paths when it's necessary or advantageous to do so (e.g. computing a path parent, or iterating over a directory, respectively).
Since 6258844c, paths that might not exist can be fed into pathlib's
globbing implementation, which will call `os.scandir()` / `os.lstat()` only
when strictly necessary. This allows us to drop an initial `self.is_dir()`
call, which saves a `stat()`.
Co-authored-by: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com>
Replace use of `os.listdir()` with `os.scandir()`. Forgo setting `_drv`,
`_root` and `_tail_cached`, as these usually aren't needed. Use
`os.DirEntry.path` to set `_str`.
Don't bother calling `os.scandir()` to scan for literal pattern segments,
like `foo` in `foo/*.py`. Instead, append the segment(s) as-is and call
through to the next selector with `exists=False`, which signals that the
path might not exist. Subsequent selectors will call `os.scandir()` or
`os.lstat()` to filter out missing paths as needed.
Move `pathlib.Path.walk()` implementation into `glob._Globber`. The new
`glob._Globber.walk()` classmethod works with strings internally, which is
a little faster than generating `Path` objects and keeping them normalized.
The `pathlib.Path.walk()` method converts the strings back to path objects.
In the private pathlib ABCs, our existing subclass of `_Globber` ensures
that `PathBase` instances are used throughout.
Follow-up to #117589.
Move pathlib globbing implementation into a new private class: `glob._Globber`. This class implements fast string-based globbing. It's called by `pathlib.Path.glob()`, which then converts strings back to path objects.
In the private pathlib ABCs, add a `pathlib._abc.Globber` subclass that works with `PathBase` objects rather than strings, and calls user-defined path methods like `PathBase.stat()` rather than `os.stat()`.
This sets the stage for two more improvements:
- GH-115060: Query non-wildcard segments with `lstat()`
- GH-116380: Unify `pathlib` and `glob` implementations of globbing.
No change to the implementations of `glob.glob()` and `glob.iglob()`.
Replace tri-state `follow_symlinks` with boolean `recurse_symlinks` argument. The new argument controls whether symlinks are followed when expanding recursive `**` wildcards. The possible argument values correspond as follows:
follow_symlinks recurse_symlinks
=============== ================
False N/A
None False
True True
We therefore drop support for not following symlinks when expanding non-recursive pattern parts; it wasn't requested in the original issue, and it's a feature not found in any shells.
This makes the API a easier to grok by eliminating `None` as an option.
No news blurb as `follow_symlinks` was new in 3.13.
Switch the default value of *follow_symlinks* from `None` to `True` in
`pathlib._abc.PathBase.glob()` and `rglob()`. This speeds up recursive
globbing.
No change to the public pathlib classes.
When expanding and filtering paths for a `**` wildcard segment, build an `re.Pattern` object from the subsequent pattern parts, rather than the entire pattern, and match against the `os.DirEntry` object prior to instantiating a path object. Also skip compiling a pattern when expanding a `*` wildcard segment.
When expanding `**` wildcards, ensure we add a trailing slash to the
topmost directory path. This matches `glob.glob()` behaviour:
>>> glob.glob('dirA/**', recursive=True)
['dirA/', 'dirA/dirB', 'dirA/dirB/dirC']
This does not affect `pathlib.Path.glob()`, because trailing slashes aren't
supported in pathlib proper.
Methods like `full_match()`, `glob()`, etc, are difficult to make work with
byte paths, and it's not worth the effort. This patch makes `PurePathBase`
raise `TypeError` when given non-`str` path segments.
Raise `UnsupportedOperation` directly, rather than via an `_unsupported()`
helper, to give human readers and IDEs/typecheckers/etc a bigger hint that
these methods are abstract.
Return files and directories from `pathlib.Path.glob()` if the pattern ends
with `**`. This is more compatible with `PurePath.full_match()` and with
other glob implementations such as bash and `glob.glob()`. Users can add a
trailing slash to match only directories.
In my previous patch I added a `FutureWarning` with the intention of fixing
this in Python 3.15. Upon further reflection I think this was an
unnecessarily cautious remedy to a clear bug.
Raise `ValueError` if `with_suffix('.ext')` is called on a path without a
stem. Paths may only have a non-empty suffix if they also have a non-empty
stem.
ABC-only bugfix; no effect on public classes.
Remove `self.joinpath('')` call that should have been removed in 6313cdde.
This makes `PathBase.glob('')` yield itself *without* adding a trailing slash. It's hard to say whether this is more or less correct, but at least everything else is faster, and there's no behaviour change in the public classes where empty glob patterns are disallowed.
Add `ntpath.isreserved()`, which identifies reserved pathnames such as "NUL", "AUX" and "CON".
Deprecate `pathlib.PurePath.is_reserved()`.
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Co-authored-by: Eryk Sun <eryksun@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com>
In 49f90ba we added support for the recursive wildcard `**` in
`pathlib.PurePath.match()`. This should allow arbitrary prefix and suffix
matching, like `p.match('foo/**')` or `p.match('**/foo')`, but there's a
problem: for relative patterns only, `match()` implicitly inserts a `**`
token on the left hand side, causing all patterns to match from the right.
As a result, it's impossible to match relative patterns from the left:
`PurePath('foo/bar').match('bar/**')` is true!
This commit reverts the changes to `match()`, and instead adds a new
`full_match()` method that:
- Allows empty patterns
- Supports the recursive wildcard `**`
- Matches the *entire* path when given a relative pattern
Use `_make_child_entry()` rather than `_make_child_relpath()` to retrieve
path objects for directories to visit. This saves the allocation of one
path object per directory in user subclasses of `PathBase`, and avoids a
second loop.
This trick does not apply when walking top-down, because users can affect
the walk by modifying *dirnames* in-place.
A side effect of this change is that, in bottom-up mode, subdirectories of
each directory are visited in reverse order, and that this order doesn't
match that of the names in *dirnames*. I suspect this is fine as the
order is arbitrary anyway.
Allow `os.PathLike` objects to be passed as patterns to `pathlib.Path.glob()` and `rglob()`. (It's already possible to use them in `PurePath.match()`)
While we're in the area:
- Allow empty glob patterns in `PathBase` (but not `Path`)
- Speed up globbing in `PathBase` by generating paths with trailing slashes only as a final step, rather than for every intermediate directory.
- Simplify and speed up handling of rare patterns involving both `**` and `..` segments.
This allows users of the `pathlib-abc` PyPI package to use `posixpath` or
`ntpath` as a path module in versions of Python lacking
`os.path.splitroot()` (3.11 and before).
Path modules provide a subset of the `os.path` API, specifically those
functions needed to provide `PurePathBase` functionality. Each
`PurePathBase` subclass references its path module via a `pathmod` class
attribute.
This commit adds a new `PathModuleBase` class, which provides abstract
methods that unconditionally raise `UnsupportedOperation`. An instance of
this class is assigned to `PurePathBase.pathmod`, replacing `posixpath`.
As a result, `PurePathBase` is no longer POSIX-y by default, and
all its methods raise `UnsupportedOperation` courtesy of `pathmod`.
Users who subclass `PurePathBase` or `PathBase` should choose the path
syntax by setting `pathmod` to `posixpath`, `ntpath`, `os.path`, or their
own subclass of `PathModuleBase`, as circumstances demand.
It's wrong for the `PurePathBase` methods to rely so much on `__str__()`.
Instead, they should treat the raw path(s) as opaque objects and leave the
details to `pathmod`.
This commit adds a `PurePathBase._raw_path` property and uses it through
many of the other ABC methods. These methods are all redefined in
`PurePath` and `Path`, so this has no effect on the public classes.
On Windows, `os.path.isabs()` now returns `False` when given a path that
starts with exactly one (back)slash. This is more compatible with other
functions in `os.path`, and with Microsoft's own documentation.
Also adjust `pathlib.PureWindowsPath.is_absolute()` to call
`ntpath.isabs()`, which corrects its handling of partial UNC/device paths
like `//foo`.
Co-authored-by: Jon Foster <jon@jon-foster.co.uk>
Refuse to guess what a user means when they initialise a pathlib ABC
without any positional arguments. In mainline pathlib it's normalised to
`.`, but in the ABCs this guess isn't appropriate; for example, the path
type may not represent the current directory as `.`, or may have no concept
of a "current directory" at all.
