bpo-33123: pathlib: Add missing_ok parameter to Path.unlink (GH-6191)

Similarly to how several pathlib file creation functions have an "exists_ok" parameter, we should introduce "missing_ok" that makes removal functions not raise an exception when a file or directory is already absent.  IMHO, this should cover Path.unlink and Path.rmdir.  Note, Path.resolve() has a "strict" parameter since 3.6 that does the same thing. Naming this of this new parameter tries to be consistent with the "exists_ok" parameter as that is more explicit about what it does (as opposed to "strict").


https://bugs.python.org/issue33123
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‮zlohhcuB treboR 2019-05-16 00:02:11 +02:00 committed by Miss Islington (bot)
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@ -1635,6 +1635,11 @@ class _BasePathTest(object):
self.assertFileNotFound(p.stat)
self.assertFileNotFound(p.unlink)
def test_unlink_missing_ok(self):
p = self.cls(BASE) / 'fileAAA'
self.assertFileNotFound(p.unlink)
p.unlink(missing_ok=True)
def test_rmdir(self):
p = self.cls(BASE) / 'dirA'
for q in p.iterdir():