bpo-30618: add readlink to pathlib.Path

Doc/library/pathlib.rst

@@ -944,6 +944,19 @@ call fails (for example because the path doesn't exist).
    .. versionadded:: 3.5
 
 
+.. method:: Path.readlink()
+
+   Return the path to which the symbolic link points (as returned by
+   :func:`os.readlink`)::
+
+      >>> p = Path('mylink')
+      >>> p.symlink_to('setup.py')
+      >>> p.readlink()
+      PosixPath('setup.py')
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.9
+
+
 .. method:: Path.rename(target)
 
    Rename this file or directory to the given *target*, and return a new Path
@@ -1153,6 +1166,7 @@ os and os.path                         pathlib
 :func:`os.path.isdir`                  :meth:`Path.is_dir`
 :func:`os.path.isfile`                 :meth:`Path.is_file`
 :func:`os.path.islink`                 :meth:`Path.is_symlink`
+:func:`os.readlink`                    :meth:`Path.readlink`
 :func:`os.stat`                        :meth:`Path.stat`,
                                        :meth:`Path.owner`,
                                        :meth:`Path.group`

Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst

@@ -150,6 +150,13 @@ customization consistently by always using the value specified by
 case), and one used ``__VENV_NAME__`` instead.
 (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`37663`.)
 
+pathlib
+-------
+
+Added :meth:`~pathlib.Path.readlink()` which acts similar to
+:func:`~os.readlink`.
+(Contributed by Girts Folkmanis in :issue:`30618`)
+
 pprint
 ------
 

Lib/pathlib.py

@@ -1244,6 +1244,15 @@ def write_text(self, data, encoding=None, errors=None):
         with self.open(mode='w', encoding=encoding, errors=errors) as f:
             return f.write(data)
 
+    def readlink(self):
+        """
+        Return the path to which the symbolic link points.
+        """
+        path = self._accessor.readlink(self)
+        obj = self._from_parts((path,), init=False)
+        obj._init(template=self)
+        return obj
+
     def touch(self, mode=0o666, exist_ok=True):
         """
         Create this file with the given access mode, if it doesn't exist.

Lib/test/test_pathlib.py

@@ -1812,6 +1812,16 @@ def test_replace(self):
         self.assertEqual(os.stat(r).st_size, size)
         self.assertFileNotFound(q.stat)
 
+    @support.skip_unless_symlink
+    def test_readlink(self):
+        P = self.cls(BASE)
+        self.assertEqual((P / 'linkA').readlink(), self.cls('fileA'))
+        self.assertEqual((P / 'brokenLink').readlink(),
+                         self.cls('non-existing'))
+        self.assertEqual((P / 'linkB').readlink(), self.cls('dirB'))
+        with self.assertRaises(OSError):
+            (P / 'fileA').readlink()
+
     def test_touch_common(self):
         P = self.cls(BASE)
         p = P / 'newfileA'

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-07-14-13-48-56.bpo-30618.T5AUF6.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add :meth:`~pathlib.Path.readlink`. Patch by Girts Folkmanis.