bpo-33721: Make some os.path functions and pathlib.Path methods be tolerant to invalid paths. (#7695)

Such functions as os.path.exists(), os.path.lexists(), os.path.isdir(),
os.path.isfile(), os.path.islink(), and os.path.ismount() now return False
instead of raising ValueError or its subclasses UnicodeEncodeError
and UnicodeDecodeError for paths that contain characters or bytes
unrepresentative at the OS level.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/ntpath.py b/Lib/ntpath.py
index f0e03a2f49..0e6de2829f 100644
--- a/Lib/ntpath.py
+++ b/Lib/ntpath.py
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ def islink(path):
     """
     try:
         st = os.lstat(path)
-    except (OSError, AttributeError):
+    except (OSError, ValueError, AttributeError):
         return False
     return stat.S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)
 
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ def lexists(path):
     """Test whether a path exists.  Returns True for broken symbolic links"""
     try:
         st = os.lstat(path)
-    except OSError:
+    except (OSError, ValueError):
         return False
     return True
 
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ else:  # use native Windows method on Windows
         """Return the absolute version of a path."""
         try:
             return _getfullpathname(path)
-        except OSError:
+        except (OSError, ValueError):
             return _abspath_fallback(path)
 
 # realpath is a no-op on systems without islink support