gh-93156 - fix negative indexing into absolute `pathlib.PurePath().pa…

…rents` (GH-93273)

When a `_PathParents` object has a drive or a root, the length of the
object is *one less* than than the length of `self._parts`, which resulted
in an off-by-one error when `path.parents[-n]` was fed through to
`self._parts[:-n - 1]`. In particular, `path.parents[-1]` was a malformed
path object with spooky properties.

This is addressed by adding `len(self)` to negative indices.
(cherry picked from commit f32e6b4)

Co-authored-by: Barney Gale <[email protected]>

Lib/pathlib.py

@@ -528,6 +528,8 @@ def __getitem__(self, idx):
 
         if idx >= len(self) or idx < -len(self):
             raise IndexError(idx)
+        if idx < 0:
+            idx += len(self)
         return self._pathcls._from_parsed_parts(self._drv, self._root,
                                                 self._parts[:-idx - 1])
 

Lib/test/test_pathlib.py

@@ -463,13 +463,18 @@ def test_parents_common(self):
         self.assertEqual(par[0], P('/a/b'))
         self.assertEqual(par[1], P('/a'))
         self.assertEqual(par[2], P('/'))
+        self.assertEqual(par[-1], P('/'))
+        self.assertEqual(par[-2], P('/a'))
+        self.assertEqual(par[-3], P('/a/b'))
         self.assertEqual(par[0:1], (P('/a/b'),))
         self.assertEqual(par[:2], (P('/a/b'), P('/a')))
         self.assertEqual(par[:-1], (P('/a/b'), P('/a')))
         self.assertEqual(par[1:], (P('/a'), P('/')))
         self.assertEqual(par[::2], (P('/a/b'), P('/')))
         self.assertEqual(par[::-1], (P('/'), P('/a'), P('/a/b')))
         self.assertEqual(list(par), [P('/a/b'), P('/a'), P('/')])
+        with self.assertRaises(IndexError):
+            par[-4]
         with self.assertRaises(IndexError):
             par[3]
 

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-05-26-23-10-55.gh-issue-93156.4XfDVN.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Accessing the :attr:`pathlib.PurePath.parents` sequence of an absolute path
+using negative index values produced incorrect results.