On 3/8/2024 5:14 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:


On Mar 8, 2024 19:35, Thomas Passin via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:

    On 3/8/2024 1:03 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam via Python-list wrote:
     >     Hi,
     >     I was replacing some os.path stuff with Pathlib and I
    discovered this:
     >     Path(256 * "x").is_file()  # OSError
     >     os.path.isfile(256 * "x")  # bool
     >     Is this intended? Does pathlib try to resemble os.path as
    closely as
     >     possible?

    You must have an very old version of Python.  I'm running 3.12.2 and it
    returns False.  Either that or that path name exists and throws some
    kind of unexpected exception.



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Hi, I tested this with Python 3.8. Good to know that this was fixed!

We just learned a few posts back that it might be specific to Linux; I ran it on Windows.

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