Feature or enhancement

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Pitch

I’m proposing we add a isjunction method to os.path and a is_junction method to pathlib.Path. Both would return True if the given path is a junction. On Posix the API would exist, but would always return False as this tends to be a Windows-only thing.

We have similar logic to check for concepts like ismount, islink, etc. So i figure this would fit in.

Previous discussion

See https://discuss.python.org/t/add-mechanism-to-check-if-a-path-is-a-junction/20952 and then lower down https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/thread/KQ7AELTQRLYOXD434GQ2AHNDD23C4CYG/

There didn't seem to be any hard -1s to this proposal.

Linked PRs

• gh-99547: Add isjunction methods for checking if a path is a junction #99548