pathlib.Path.is_file vs os.path.isfile difference

[Thomas Passin]

On 3/8/2024 5:14 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
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> On Mar 8, 2024 19:35, Thomas Passin via Python-list 
> <python-list at python.org> wrote:
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>     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.