# Module 'ntpath' -- common operations on WinNT/Win95 pathnames

"""Common pathname manipulations, WindowsNT/95 version.

Instead of importing this module directly, import os and refer to this

module as os.path.

"""

# strings representing various path-related bits and pieces

# These are primarily for export; internally, they are hardcoded.

# Should be set before imports for resolving cyclic dependency.

curdir = '.'

pardir = '..'

extsep = '.'

sep = '\\'

pathsep = ';'

altsep = '/'

defpath = '.;C:\\bin'

devnull = 'nul'

import os

import sys

import stat

import genericpath

from genericpath import *

__all__ = ["normcase","isabs","join","splitdrive","split","splitext",

"basename","dirname","commonprefix","getsize","getmtime",

"getatime","getctime", "islink","exists","lexists","isdir","isfile",

"ismount", "expanduser","expandvars","normpath","abspath",

"curdir","pardir","sep","pathsep","defpath","altsep",

"extsep","devnull","realpath","supports_unicode_filenames","relpath",

"samefile", "sameopenfile", "samestat", "commonpath", "isjunction"]

def _get_bothseps(path):

if isinstance(path, bytes):

return b'\\/'

else:

return '\\/'

# Normalize the case of a pathname and map slashes to backslashes.

# Other normalizations (such as optimizing '../' away) are not done

# (this is done by normpath).

try:

from _winapi import (

LCMapStringEx as _LCMapStringEx,

LOCALE_NAME_INVARIANT as _LOCALE_NAME_INVARIANT,

LCMAP_LOWERCASE as _LCMAP_LOWERCASE)

def normcase(s):

"""Normalize case of pathname.

Makes all characters lowercase and all slashes into backslashes.

"""

s = os.fspath(s)

if not s:

return s

if isinstance(s, bytes):

encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()

s = s.decode(encoding, 'surrogateescape').replace('/', '\\')

s = _LCMapStringEx(_LOCALE_NAME_INVARIANT,

_LCMAP_LOWERCASE, s)

return s.encode(encoding, 'surrogateescape')

else:

return _LCMapStringEx(_LOCALE_NAME_INVARIANT,

_LCMAP_LOWERCASE,

s.replace('/', '\\'))

except ImportError:

def normcase(s):

"""Normalize case of pathname.

Makes all characters lowercase and all slashes into backslashes.

"""

s = os.fspath(s)

if isinstance(s, bytes):

return os.fsencode(os.fsdecode(s).replace('/', '\\').lower())

return s.replace('/', '\\').lower()

# Return whether a path is absolute.

# Trivial in Posix, harder on Windows.

# For Windows it is absolute if it starts with a slash or backslash (current

# volume), or if a pathname after the volume-letter-and-colon or UNC-resource

# starts with a slash or backslash.

def isabs(s):

"""Test whether a path is absolute"""

s = os.fspath(s)

# Paths beginning with \\?\ are always absolute, but do not

# necessarily contain a drive.

if isinstance(s, bytes):

if s.replace(b'/', b'\\').startswith(b'\\\\?\\'):

return True

else:

if s.replace('/', '\\').startswith('\\\\?\\'):

return True

s = splitdrive(s)[1]

return len(s) > 0 and s[0] and s[0] in _get_bothseps(s)

# Join two (or more) paths.

def join(path, *paths):

path = os.fspath(path)

if isinstance(path, bytes):

sep = b'\\'

seps = b'\\/'

colon = b':'

else:

sep = '\\'

seps = '\\/'

colon = ':'

try:

if not paths:

path[:0] + sep #23780: Ensure compatible data type even if p is null.

result_drive, result_path = splitdrive(path)

for p in map(os.fspath, paths):

p_drive, p_path = splitdrive(p)

if p_path and p_path[0] in seps:

# Second path is absolute

if p_drive or not result_drive:

result_drive = p_drive

result_path = p_path

continue

elif p_drive and p_drive != result_drive:

if p_drive.lower() != result_drive.lower():

# Different drives => ignore the first path entirely

result_drive = p_drive

result_path = p_path

continue

# Same drive in different case

result_drive = p_drive

# Second path is relative to the first

if result_path and result_path[-1] not in seps:

result_path = result_path + sep

result_path = result_path + p_path

## add separator between UNC and non-absolute path

if (result_path and result_path[0] not in seps and

result_drive and result_drive[-1:] != colon):

return result_drive + sep + result_path

return result_drive + result_path

except (TypeError, AttributeError, BytesWarning):

genericpath._check_arg_types('join', path, *paths)

raise

# Split a path in a drive specification (a drive letter followed by a

# colon) and the path specification.

# It is always true that drivespec + pathspec == p

def splitdrive(p):

"""Split a pathname into drive/UNC sharepoint and relative path specifiers.

Returns a 2-tuple (drive_or_unc, path); either part may be empty.

If you assign

result = splitdrive(p)

It is always true that:

result[0] + result[1] == p

If the path contained a drive letter, drive_or_unc will contain everything

up to and including the colon. e.g. splitdrive("c:/dir") returns ("c:", "/dir")

If the path contained a UNC path, the drive_or_unc will contain the host name

and share up to but not including the fourth directory separator character.

e.g. splitdrive("//host/computer/dir") returns ("//host/computer", "/dir")

Paths cannot contain both a drive letter and a UNC path.

"""

p = os.fspath(p)

if len(p) >= 2:

if isinstance(p, bytes):

sep = b'\\'

altsep = b'/'

colon = b':'

unc_prefix = b'\\\\?\\UNC'

else:

sep = '\\'

altsep = '/'

colon = ':'

unc_prefix = '\\\\?\\UNC'

normp = p.replace(altsep, sep)

if (normp[0:2] == sep*2) and (normp[2:3] != sep):

# is a UNC path:

# vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv drive letter or UNC path

# \\machine\mountpoint\directory\etc\...

# directory ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

if normp[:8].upper().rstrip(sep) == unc_prefix:

start = 8

else:

start = 2

index = normp.find(sep, start)

if index == -1:

return p[:0], p

index2 = normp.find(sep, index + 1)

# a UNC path can't have two slashes in a row

# (after the initial two)

if index2 == index + 1:

return p[:0], p

if index2 == -1:

index2 = len(p)

return p[:index2], p[index2:]

if normp[1:2] == colon:

return p[:2], p[2:]

return p[:0], p

# Split a path in head (everything up to the last '/') and tail (the

# rest). After the trailing '/' is stripped, the invariant

# join(head, tail) == p holds.

# The resulting head won't end in '/' unless it is the root.

def split(p):

"""Split a pathname.

Return tuple (head, tail) where tail is everything after the final slash.

Either part may be empty."""

p = os.fspath(p)

seps = _get_bothseps(p)

d, p = splitdrive(p)

# set i to index beyond p's last slash

i = len(p)

while i and p[i-1] not in seps:

i -= 1

head, tail = p[:i], p[i:] # now tail has no slashes

# remove trailing slashes from head, unless it's all slashes

head = head.rstrip(seps) or head

return d + head, tail

# Split a path in root and extension.

# The extension is everything starting at the last dot in the last

# pathname component; the root is everything before that.

# It is always true that root + ext == p.

def splitext(p):

p = os.fspath(p)

if isinstance(p, bytes):

return genericpath._splitext(p, b'\\', b'/', b'.')

else:

return genericpath._splitext(p, '\\', '/', '.')

splitext.__doc__ = genericpath._splitext.__doc__

# Return the tail (basename) part of a path.

def basename(p):

"""Returns the final component of a pathname"""

return split(p)[1]

# Return the head (dirname) part of a path.

def dirname(p):

"""Returns the directory component of a pathname"""

return split(p)[0]

# Is a path a symbolic link?

# This will always return false on systems where os.lstat doesn't exist.

def islink(path):

"""Test whether a path is a symbolic link.

This will always return false for Windows prior to 6.0.

"""

try:

st = os.lstat(path)

except (OSError, ValueError, AttributeError):

return False

return stat.S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)

# Is a path a junction?

if hasattr(os.stat_result, 'st_reparse_tag'):

def isjunction(path):

"""Test whether a path is a junction"""

try:

st = os.lstat(path)

except (OSError, ValueError, AttributeError):

return False

return bool(st.st_reparse_tag == stat.IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT)

else:

def isjunction(path):

"""Test whether a path is a junction"""

os.fspath(path)

return False

# Being true for dangling symbolic links is also useful.

def lexists(path):

"""Test whether a path exists. Returns True for broken symbolic links"""

try:

st = os.lstat(path)

except (OSError, ValueError):

return False

return True

# Is a path a mount point?

# Any drive letter root (eg c:\)

# Any share UNC (eg \\server\share)

# Any volume mounted on a filesystem folder

#

# No one method detects all three situations. Historically we've lexically

# detected drive letter roots and share UNCs. The canonical approach to

# detecting mounted volumes (querying the reparse tag) fails for the most

# common case: drive letter roots. The alternative which uses GetVolumePathName

# fails if the drive letter is the result of a SUBST.

try:

from nt import _getvolumepathname

except ImportError:

_getvolumepathname = None

def ismount(path):

"""Test whether a path is a mount point (a drive root, the root of a

share, or a mounted volume)"""

path = os.fspath(path)

seps = _get_bothseps(path)

path = abspath(path)

root, rest = splitdrive(path)

if root and root[0] in seps:

return (not rest) or (rest in seps)

if rest and rest in seps:

return True

if _getvolumepathname:

x = path.rstrip(seps)

y =_getvolumepathname(path).rstrip(seps)

return x.casefold() == y.casefold()

else:

return False

# Expand paths beginning with '~' or '~user'.

# '~' means $HOME; '~user' means that user's home directory.

# If the path doesn't begin with '~', or if the user or $HOME is unknown,

# the path is returned unchanged (leaving error reporting to whatever

# function is called with the expanded path as argument).

# See also module 'glob' for expansion of *, ? and [...] in pathnames.

# (A function should also be defined to do full *sh-style environment

# variable expansion.)

def expanduser(path):

"""Expand ~ and ~user constructs.

If user or $HOME is unknown, do nothing."""

path = os.fspath(path)

if isinstance(path, bytes):

tilde = b'~'

else:

tilde = '~'

if not path.startswith(tilde):

return path

i, n = 1, len(path)

while i < n and path[i] not in _get_bothseps(path):

i += 1

if 'USERPROFILE' in os.environ:

userhome = os.environ['USERPROFILE']

elif not 'HOMEPATH' in os.environ:

return path

else:

try:

drive = os.environ['HOMEDRIVE']

except KeyError:

drive = ''

userhome = join(drive, os.environ['HOMEPATH'])

if i != 1: #~user

target_user = path[1:i]

if isinstance(target_user, bytes):

target_user = os.fsdecode(target_user)

current_user = os.environ.get('USERNAME')

if target_user != current_user:

# Try to guess user home directory. By default all user

# profile directories are located in the same place and are

# named by corresponding usernames. If userhome isn't a

# normal profile directory, this guess is likely wrong,

# so we bail out.

if current_user != basename(userhome):

return path

userhome = join(dirname(userhome), target_user)

if isinstance(path, bytes):

userhome = os.fsencode(userhome)

return userhome + path[i:]

# Expand paths containing shell variable substitutions.

# The following rules apply:

# - no expansion within single quotes

# - '$$' is translated into '$'

# - '%%' is translated into '%' if '%%' are not seen in %var1%%var2%

# - ${varname} is accepted.

# - $varname is accepted.

# - %varname% is accepted.

# - varnames can be made out of letters, digits and the characters '_-'

# (though is not verified in the ${varname} and %varname% cases)

# XXX With COMMAND.COM you can use any characters in a variable name,

# XXX except '^|<>='.

def expandvars(path):

"""Expand shell variables of the forms $var, ${var} and %var%.

Unknown variables are left unchanged."""

path = os.fspath(path)

if isinstance(path, bytes):

if b'$' not in path and b'%' not in path:

return path

import string

varchars = bytes(string.ascii_letters + string.digits + '_-', 'ascii')

quote = b'\''

percent = b'%'

brace = b'{'

rbrace = b'}'

dollar = b'$'

environ = getattr(os, 'environb', None)

else:

if '$' not in path and '%' not in path:

return path

import string

varchars = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + '_-'

quote = '\''

percent = '%'

brace = '{'

rbrace = '}'

dollar = '$'

environ = os.environ

res = path[:0]

index = 0

pathlen = len(path)

while index < pathlen:

c = path[index:index+1]

if c == quote: # no expansion within single quotes

path = path[index + 1:]

pathlen = len(path)

try:

index = path.index(c)

res += c + path[:index + 1]

except ValueError:

res += c + path

index = pathlen - 1

elif c == percent: # variable or '%'

if path[index + 1:index + 2] == percent:

res += c

index += 1

else:

path = path[index+1:]

pathlen = len(path)

try:

index = path.index(percent)

except ValueError:

res += percent + path

index = pathlen - 1

else:

var = path[:index]

try:

if environ is None:

value = os.fsencode(os.environ[os.fsdecode(var)])

else:

value = environ[var]

except KeyError:

value = percent + var + percent

res += value

elif c == dollar: # variable or '$$'

if path[index + 1:index + 2] == dollar:

res += c

index += 1

elif path[index + 1:index + 2] == brace:

path = path[index+2:]

pathlen = len(path)

try:

index = path.index(rbrace)

except ValueError:

res += dollar + brace + path

index = pathlen - 1

else:

var = path[:index]

try:

if environ is None:

value = os.fsencode(os.environ[os.fsdecode(var)])

else:

value = environ[var]

except KeyError:

value = dollar + brace + var + rbrace

res += value

else:

var = path[:0]

index += 1

c = path[index:index + 1]

while c and c in varchars:

var += c

index += 1

c = path[index:index + 1]

try:

if environ is None:

value = os.fsencode(os.environ[os.fsdecode(var)])

else:

value = environ[var]

except KeyError:

value = dollar + var

res += value

if c:

index -= 1

else:

res += c

index += 1

return res

# Normalize a path, e.g. A//B, A/./B and A/foo/../B all become A\B.

# Previously, this function also truncated pathnames to 8+3 format,

# but as this module is called "ntpath", that's obviously wrong!

try:

from nt import _path_normpath

except ImportError:

def normpath(path):

"""Normalize path, eliminating double slashes, etc."""

path = os.fspath(path)

if isinstance(path, bytes):

sep = b'\\'

altsep = b'/'

curdir = b'.'

pardir = b'..'

special_prefixes = (b'\\\\.\\', b'\\\\?\\')

else:

sep = '\\'

altsep = '/'

curdir = '.'

pardir = '..'

special_prefixes = ('\\\\.\\', '\\\\?\\')

if path.startswith(special_prefixes):

# in the case of paths with these prefixes:

# \\.\ -> device names

# \\?\ -> literal paths

# do not do any normalization, but return the path

# unchanged apart from the call to os.fspath()

return path

path = path.replace(altsep, sep)

prefix, path = splitdrive(path)

# collapse initial backslashes

if path.startswith(sep):

prefix += sep

path = path.lstrip(sep)

comps = path.split(sep)

i = 0

while i < len(comps):

if not comps[i] or comps[i] == curdir:

del comps[i]

elif comps[i] == pardir:

if i > 0 and comps[i-1] != pardir:

del comps[i-1:i+1]

i -= 1

elif i == 0 and prefix.endswith(sep):

del comps[i]

else:

i += 1

else:

i += 1

# If the path is now empty, substitute '.'

if not prefix and not comps:

comps.append(curdir)

return prefix + sep.join(comps)

else:

def normpath(path):

"""Normalize path, eliminating double slashes, etc."""

path = os.fspath(path)

if isinstance(path, bytes):

return os.fsencode(_path_normpath(os.fsdecode(path))) or b"."

return _path_normpath(path) or "."

def _abspath_fallback(path):

"""Return the absolute version of a path as a fallback function in case

`nt._getfullpathname` is not available or raises OSError. See bpo-31047 for

more.

"""

path = os.fspath(path)

if not isabs(path):

if isinstance(path, bytes):

cwd = os.getcwdb()

else:

cwd = os.getcwd()

path = join(cwd, path)

return normpath(path)

# Return an absolute path.

try:

from nt import _getfullpathname

except ImportError: # not running on Windows - mock up something sensible

abspath = _abspath_fallback

else: # use native Windows method on Windows

def abspath(path):

"""Return the absolute version of a path."""

try:

return _getfullpathname(normpath(path))

except (OSError, ValueError):

return _abspath_fallback(path)

try:

from nt import _getfinalpathname, readlink as _nt_readlink

except ImportError:

# realpath is a no-op on systems without _getfinalpathname support.

realpath = abspath

else:

def _readlink_deep(path):

# These error codes indicate that we should stop reading links and

# return the path we currently have.

# 1: ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION

# 2: ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND

# 3: ERROR_DIRECTORY_NOT_FOUND

# 5: ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED

# 21: ERROR_NOT_READY (implies drive with no media)

# 32: ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (probably an NTFS paging file)

# 50: ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED (implies no support for reparse points)

# 67: ERROR_BAD_NET_NAME (implies remote server unavailable)

# 87: ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER

# 4390: ERROR_NOT_A_REPARSE_POINT

# 4392: ERROR_INVALID_REPARSE_DATA

# 4393: ERROR_REPARSE_TAG_INVALID

allowed_winerror = 1, 2, 3, 5, 21, 32, 50, 67, 87, 4390, 4392, 4393

seen = set()

while normcase(path) not in seen:

seen.add(normcase(path))

try:

old_path = path

path = _nt_readlink(path)

# Links may be relative, so resolve them against their

# own location

if not isabs(path):

# If it's something other than a symlink, we don't know

# what it's actually going to be resolved against, so

# just return the old path.

if not islink(old_path):

path = old_path

break

path = normpath(join(dirname(old_path), path))

except OSError as ex:

if ex.winerror in allowed_winerror:

break

raise

except ValueError:

# Stop on reparse points that are not symlinks

break

return path

def _getfinalpathname_nonstrict(path):

# These error codes indicate that we should stop resolving the path

# and return the value we currently have.

# 1: ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION

# 2: ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND

# 3: ERROR_DIRECTORY_NOT_FOUND

# 5: ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED

# 21: ERROR_NOT_READY (implies drive with no media)

# 32: ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (probably an NTFS paging file)

# 50: ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED

# 67: ERROR_BAD_NET_NAME (implies remote server unavailable)

# 87: ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER

# 123: ERROR_INVALID_NAME

# 1920: ERROR_CANT_ACCESS_FILE

# 1921: ERROR_CANT_RESOLVE_FILENAME (implies unfollowable symlink)

allowed_winerror = 1, 2, 3, 5, 21, 32, 50, 67, 87, 123, 1920, 1921

# Non-strict algorithm is to find as much of the target directory

# as we can and join the rest.

tail = ''

while path:

try:

path = _getfinalpathname(path)

return join(path, tail) if tail else path

except OSError as ex:

if ex.winerror not in allowed_winerror:

raise

try:

# The OS could not resolve this path fully, so we attempt

# to follow the link ourselves. If we succeed, join the tail

# and return.

new_path = _readlink_deep(path)

if new_path != path:

return join(new_path, tail) if tail else new_path

except OSError:

# If we fail to readlink(), let's keep traversing

pass

path, name = split(path)

# TODO (bpo-38186): Request the real file name from the directory

# entry using FindFirstFileW. For now, we will return the path

# as best we have it

if path and not name:

return path + tail

tail = join(name, tail) if tail else name

return tail

def realpath(path, *, strict=False):

path = normpath(path)

if isinstance(path, bytes):

prefix = b'\\\\?\\'

unc_prefix = b'\\\\?\\UNC\\'

new_unc_prefix = b'\\\\'

cwd = os.getcwdb()

# bpo-38081: Special case for realpath(b'nul')

if normcase(path) == normcase(os.fsencode(devnull)):

return b'\\\\.\\NUL'

else:

prefix = '\\\\?\\'

unc_prefix = '\\\\?\\UNC\\'

new_unc_prefix = '\\\\'

cwd = os.getcwd()

# bpo-38081: Special case for realpath('nul')

if normcase(path) == normcase(devnull):

return '\\\\.\\NUL'

had_prefix = path.startswith(prefix)

if not had_prefix and not isabs(path):

path = join(cwd, path)

try:

path = _getfinalpathname(path)

initial_winerror = 0

except OSError as ex:

if strict:

raise

initial_winerror = ex.winerror

path = _getfinalpathname_nonstrict(path)

# The path returned by _getfinalpathname will always start with \\?\ -

# strip off that prefix unless it was already provided on the original

# path.

if not had_prefix and path.startswith(prefix):

# For UNC paths, the prefix will actually be \\?\UNC\

# Handle that case as well.

if path.startswith(unc_prefix):

spath = new_unc_prefix + path[len(unc_prefix):]

else:

spath = path[len(prefix):]

# Ensure that the non-prefixed path resolves to the same path

try:

if _getfinalpathname(spath) == path:

path = spath

except OSError as ex:

# If the path does not exist and originally did not exist, then

# strip the prefix anyway.

if ex.winerror == initial_winerror:

path = spath

return path

# All supported version have Unicode filename support.

supports_unicode_filenames = True

def relpath(path, start=None):

"""Return a relative version of a path"""

path = os.fspath(path)

if isinstance(path, bytes):

sep = b'\\'

curdir = b'.'

pardir = b'..'

else:

sep = '\\'

curdir = '.'

pardir = '..'

if start is None:

start = curdir

if not path:

raise ValueError("no path specified")

start = os.fspath(start)

try:

start_abs = abspath(normpath(start))

path_abs = abspath(normpath(path))

start_drive, start_rest = splitdrive(start_abs)

path_drive, path_rest = splitdrive(path_abs)

if normcase(start_drive) != normcase(path_drive):

raise ValueError("path is on mount %r, start on mount %r" % (

path_drive, start_drive))

start_list = [x for x in start_rest.split(sep) if x]

path_list = [x for x in path_rest.split(sep) if x]

# Work out how much of the filepath is shared by start and path.

i = 0

for e1, e2 in zip(start_list, path_list):

if normcase(e1) != normcase(e2):

break

i += 1

rel_list = [pardir] * (len(start_list)-i) + path_list[i:]

if not rel_list:

return curdir

return join(*rel_list)

except (TypeError, ValueError, AttributeError, BytesWarning, DeprecationWarning):

genericpath._check_arg_types('relpath', path, start)

raise

# Return the longest common sub-path of the sequence of paths given as input.

# The function is case-insensitive and 'separator-insensitive', i.e. if the

# only difference between two paths is the use of '\' versus '/' as separator,

# they are deemed to be equal.

#

# However, the returned path will have the standard '\' separator (even if the

# given paths had the alternative '/' separator) and will have the case of the

# first path given in the sequence. Additionally, any trailing separator is

# stripped from the returned path.

def commonpath(paths):

"""Given a sequence of path names, returns the longest common sub-path."""

if not paths:

raise ValueError('commonpath() arg is an empty sequence')

paths = tuple(map(os.fspath, paths))

if isinstance(paths[0], bytes):

sep = b'\\'

altsep = b'/'

curdir = b'.'

else:

sep = '\\'

altsep = '/'

curdir = '.'

try:

drivesplits = [splitdrive(p.replace(altsep, sep).lower()) for p in paths]

split_paths = [p.split(sep) for d, p in drivesplits]

try:

isabs, = set(p[:1] == sep for d, p in drivesplits)

except ValueError:

raise ValueError("Can't mix absolute and relative paths") from None

# Check that all drive letters or UNC paths match. The check is made only

# now otherwise type errors for mixing strings and bytes would not be

# caught.

if len(set(d for d, p in drivesplits)) != 1:

raise ValueError("Paths don't have the same drive")

drive, path = splitdrive(paths[0].replace(altsep, sep))

common = path.split(sep)

common = [c for c in common if c and c != curdir]

split_paths = [[c for c in s if c and c != curdir] for s in split_paths]

s1 = min(split_paths)

s2 = max(split_paths)

for i, c in enumerate(s1):

if c != s2[i]:

common = common[:i]

break

else:

common = common[:len(s1)]

prefix = drive + sep if isabs else drive

return prefix + sep.join(common)

except (TypeError, AttributeError):

genericpath._check_arg_types('commonpath', *paths)

raise

try:

# The genericpath.isdir implementation uses os.stat and checks the mode

# attribute to tell whether or not the path is a directory.

# This is overkill on Windows - just pass the path to GetFileAttributes

# and check the attribute from there.

from nt import _isdir as isdir

except ImportError:

# Use genericpath.isdir as imported above.

pass