[issue21322] Pathlib .owner() and .group() methods fail on broken links

Change by Serhiy Storchaka : -- resolution: -> rejected stage: -> resolved status: pending -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyt

[issue21322] Pathlib .owner() and .group() methods fail on broken links

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[issue21322] Pathlib .owner() and .group() methods fail on broken links

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > - It can make programs crash *unexpectedly* A broken link is an error, so it's normal to have an exception raised here. An exception can always be caught if you were expecting the error. > - Pathlib should provide a complete and uniform API for dealing with >

[issue21322] Pathlib .owner() and .group() methods fail on broken links

Iñigo Serna added the comment: Mainly, 2 reasons: - It can make programs crash *unexpectedly* - Pathlib should provide a complete and uniform API for dealing with all types of files. If not, users would need to use Pathlib for some kind of files and go to os and os.path for others, then why t

[issue21322] Pathlib .owner() and .group() methods fail on broken links

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Most other Path methods operate on the link target, not the link itself, so I don't see why these methods would work otherwise. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue21322] Pathlib .owner() and .group() methods fail on broken links

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[issue21322] Pathlib .owner() and .group() methods fail on broken links

New submission from Iñigo Serna: Pathlib .owner() and .group() methods fail on broken symlinks. They use: return pwd.getpwuid(self.stat().st_uid).pw_name and: return grp.getgrgid(self.stat().st_gid).gr_name It should be self.lstat(). Attached simple fix as unified diff. -- com