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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index 38b8623..1c129a7 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -112,6 +112,31 @@ New Modules Improved Modules ================ +os.path +------- + +:mod:`os.path` functions that return a boolean result like +:func:`~os.path.exists`, :func:`~os.path.lexists`, :func:`~os.path.isdir`, +:func:`~os.path.isfile`, :func:`~os.path.islink`, and :func:`~os.path.ismount` +now return ``False`` instead of raising :exc:`ValueError` or its subclasses +:exc:`UnicodeEncodeError` and :exc:`UnicodeDecodeError` for paths that contain +characters or bytes unrepresentable at the OS level. +(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`33721`.) + +pathlib +------- + +:mod:`pathlib.Path` methods that return a boolean result like +:meth:`~pathlib.Path.exists()`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_dir()`, +:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_file()`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_mount()`, +:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_symlink()`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_block_device()`, +:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_char_device()`, :meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_fifo()`, +:meth:`~pathlib.Path.is_socket()` now return ``False`` instead of raising +:exc:`ValueError` or its subclass :exc:`UnicodeEncodeError` for paths that +contain characters unrepresentable at the OS level. +(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`33721`.) + + Optimizations ============= |