gh-117114: Add isdevdrive to posixpath

Lib/genericpath.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 __all__ = ['commonprefix', 'exists', 'getatime', 'getctime', 'getmtime',
            'getsize', 'isdir', 'isfile', 'islink', 'samefile', 'sameopenfile',
-           'samestat']
+           'samestat','lexists']
 
 
 # Does a path exist?
@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ def exists(path):
     return True
 
 
+# Being true for dangling symbolic links is also useful.
+def lexists(path):
+    """Test whether a path exists.  Returns True for broken symbolic links"""
+    try:
+        os.lstat(path)
+    except (OSError, ValueError):
+        return False
+    return True
+
 # This follows symbolic links, so both islink() and isdir() can be true
 # for the same path on systems that support symlinks
 def isfile(path):

Lib/ntpath.py

@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
            "ismount","isreserved","expanduser","expandvars","normpath",
            "abspath","curdir","pardir","sep","pathsep","defpath","altsep",
            "extsep","devnull","realpath","supports_unicode_filenames","relpath",
-           "samefile", "sameopenfile", "samestat", "commonpath", "isjunction"]
+           "samefile", "sameopenfile", "samestat", "commonpath", "isjunction",
+           "isdevdrive"]
 
 def _get_bothseps(path):
     if isinstance(path, bytes):
@@ -286,16 +287,6 @@ def isjunction(path):
         return False
 
 
-# Being true for dangling symbolic links is also useful.
-
-def lexists(path):
-    """Test whether a path exists.  Returns True for broken symbolic links"""
-    try:
-        st = os.lstat(path)
-    except (OSError, ValueError):
-        return False
-    return True
-
 # Is a path a mount point?
 # Any drive letter root (eg c:\)
 # Any share UNC (eg \\server\share)

Lib/posixpath.py

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
            "samefile","sameopenfile","samestat",
            "curdir","pardir","sep","pathsep","defpath","altsep","extsep",
            "devnull","realpath","supports_unicode_filenames","relpath",
-           "commonpath", "isjunction"]
+           "commonpath", "isjunction","isdevdrive"]
 
 
 def _get_sep(path):
@@ -196,16 +196,10 @@ def isjunction(path):
     return False
 
 
-# Being true for dangling symbolic links is also useful.
-
-def lexists(path):
-    """Test whether a path exists.  Returns True for broken symbolic links"""
-    try:
-        os.lstat(path)
-    except (OSError, ValueError):
-        return False
-    return True
-
+def isdevdrive(path):
+    """Determines whether the specified path is on a Dev Drive.
+    Dev Drives are not a part of posix semantics"""
+    return False
 
 # Is a path a mount point?
 # (Does this work for all UNIXes?  Is it even guaranteed to work by Posix?)

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-03-21-09-57-57.gh-issue-117114.Qu-p55.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Added posix implementation for isdevdrive.