Issue #19775: Add a samefile() method to pathlib Path objects.
Initial patch by Vajrasky Kok.
diff --git a/Lib/pathlib.py b/Lib/pathlib.py
index d3d1af8..03c5e6e 100644
--- a/Lib/pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/pathlib.py
@@ -961,6 +961,17 @@
"""
return cls(os.getcwd())
+ def samefile(self, other_path):
+ """Return whether `other_file` is the same or not as this file.
+ (as returned by os.path.samefile(file, other_file)).
+ """
+ st = self.stat()
+ try:
+ other_st = other_path.stat()
+ except AttributeError:
+ other_st = os.stat(other_path)
+ return os.path.samestat(st, other_st)
+
def iterdir(self):
"""Iterate over the files in this directory. Does not yield any
result for the special paths '.' and '..'.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
index 6378d8c..fd9cf23 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
@@ -1251,6 +1251,26 @@
p = self.cls.cwd()
self._test_cwd(p)
+ def test_samefile(self):
+ fileA_path = os.path.join(BASE, 'fileA')
+ fileB_path = os.path.join(BASE, 'dirB', 'fileB')
+ p = self.cls(fileA_path)
+ pp = self.cls(fileA_path)
+ q = self.cls(fileB_path)
+ self.assertTrue(p.samefile(fileA_path))
+ self.assertTrue(p.samefile(pp))
+ self.assertFalse(p.samefile(fileB_path))
+ self.assertFalse(p.samefile(q))
+ # Test the non-existent file case
+ non_existent = os.path.join(BASE, 'foo')
+ r = self.cls(non_existent)
+ self.assertRaises(FileNotFoundError, p.samefile, r)
+ self.assertRaises(FileNotFoundError, p.samefile, non_existent)
+ self.assertRaises(FileNotFoundError, r.samefile, p)
+ self.assertRaises(FileNotFoundError, r.samefile, non_existent)
+ self.assertRaises(FileNotFoundError, r.samefile, r)
+ self.assertRaises(FileNotFoundError, r.samefile, non_existent)
+
def test_empty_path(self):
# The empty path points to '.'
p = self.cls('')