[New-bugs-announce] [issue9035] os.path.ismount on windows doesn't support windows mount points

[Oren Held]

New submission from Oren Held <oren at held.org.il>:

On unices, ismount checks whether the given path is a mount point.
On windows, it only checks whether it's a drive letter.

Long story short, Python simply returns False when doing ismount(r"c:\mount1"), while c:\mount1 is a real mount point.

This is relevant for all modern windows versions.

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I'm using win32file.GetVolumePathName() for overcoming this, but I'm not sure if the os python package should be importing win32file, maybe there is a better way to check whether a path is a mount point..

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components: Windows
messages: 108225
nosy: Oren_Held
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.path.ismount on windows doesn't support windows mount points
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7

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