Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

Quoting @eryksun:

I agree that all of these _path_is* and _path_[l]exists helpers are a lot of code to maintain, taken together. It could be refactored into smaller inline helper functions that can be reused, which would also make the code more readable.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

• gh-117841: Add C implementation of ntpath.lexists #117842

Linked PRs

• gh-118507 : Refactor nt._path_is* #118755
• [3.13] gh-118507 : Refactor nt._path_is* to improve applicability for other cases (GH-118755) #119360
• [3.12] gh-118507 : Fix ntpath.isfile for pipes. #119381
• [3.12] gh-118507 : Speed up ntpath.isjunction() & ntpath.lexists() with native helpers (GH-118755) #119420
• gh-118507: Amend news entry #120817
• [3.13] gh-118507: Amend news entry to mention ntpath.isfile bugfix (GH-120817) #121365