When using pathlib to manipulate paths that may be symlinks or regular files, a pattern that comes up frequently is this expression:

path.is_symlink() or path.exists()

os.path.lexists(path) can be used for this, but when using pathlib going back to os.path for this seems like defeat.

I haven't contributed to Python yet and I can contribute this as a way for me to practice the PR process in Python.

As this is a small addition, should I create a PR right away, or wait for a consensus here?

If you're okay with the PR being rejected because the decision is the method isn't desired, then feel free to go ahead and create a PR, Engin! But if you want to a better chance that it will eventually go in then I would wait for consensus.

Thanks for the response Brett! I am not going to rush, then. But if I happen to have some free time and motivation to create the PR, I will just do it. I don't mind revising or getting rejected.

I've come across this issue lately and proposed a PR which implements this and, analogous to os.stat(), adds a follow_symlinks parameter to Path.exists().