[New-bugs-announce] [issue36305] Inconsistent behavior of pathlib.WindowsPath with drive paths

[Maor Kleinberger]

New submission from Maor Kleinberger <kmaork at gmail.com>:

The behavior of WindowsPath is undefined when used with drive paths, specifically with no trailing slash:

WindowsPath('cc:').absolute() -> WindowsPath('C:/Users/maor/cc:')
WindowsPath('c:').absolute() -> WindowsPath('c:') 
WindowsPath('c:').is_absolute() -> False
WindowsPath('c:') / 'p' -> WindowsPath('c:p')
WindowsPath('c:p').absolute() -> WindowsPath('c:p')
WindowsPath('c:p').is_absolute() -> False

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 337999
nosy: kmaork
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Inconsistent behavior of pathlib.WindowsPath with drive paths
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8

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