commit a01ba333affcc0677146dc8af57179bdb808d608
author Girts <girtsf@users.noreply.github.com> Wed Oct 23 14:18:40 2019 -0700
committer Miss Skeleton (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Wed Oct 23 14:18:40 2019 -0700
tree 5b3c67ab51bc2c5074b19828c24de7a3d2eac119
parent 01659ca62c4508518478a74615ac91c0009427ad

bpo-30618: add readlink to pathlib.Path (GH-8285)



This adds a "readlink" method to pathlib.Path objects that calls through
to os.readlink.


https://bugs.python.org/issue30618



Automerge-Triggered-By: @gpshead

Lib/test/test_pathlib.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
index 221c272..058a201 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
@@ -1812,6 +1812,16 @@
         self.assertEqual(os.stat(r).st_size, size)
         self.assertFileNotFound(q.stat)
 
+    @support.skip_unless_symlink
+    def test_readlink(self):
+        P = self.cls(BASE)
+        self.assertEqual((P / 'linkA').readlink(), self.cls('fileA'))
+        self.assertEqual((P / 'brokenLink').readlink(),
+                         self.cls('non-existing'))
+        self.assertEqual((P / 'linkB').readlink(), self.cls('dirB'))
+        with self.assertRaises(OSError):
+            (P / 'fileA').readlink()
+
     def test_touch_common(self):
         P = self.cls(BASE)
         p = P / 'newfileA'