bpo-33721: Make some os.path functions and pathlib.Path methods be tolerant to invalid paths. (#7695)

Such functions as os.path.exists(), os.path.lexists(), os.path.isdir(),
os.path.isfile(), os.path.islink(), and os.path.ismount() now return False
instead of raising ValueError or its subclasses UnicodeEncodeError
and UnicodeDecodeError for paths that contain characters or bytes
unrepresentative at the OS level.

Lib/posixpath.py

@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ def islink(path):
     """Test whether a path is a symbolic link"""
     try:
         st = os.lstat(path)
-    except (OSError, AttributeError):
+    except (OSError, ValueError, AttributeError):
         return False
     return stat.S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)
 
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ def lexists(path):
     """Test whether a path exists.  Returns True for broken symbolic links"""
     try:
         os.lstat(path)
-    except OSError:
+    except (OSError, ValueError):
         return False
     return True
 
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ def ismount(path):
     """Test whether a path is a mount point"""
     try:
         s1 = os.lstat(path)
-    except OSError:
+    except (OSError, ValueError):
         # It doesn't exist -- so not a mount point. :-)
         return False
     else:
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ def ismount(path):
     parent = realpath(parent)
     try:
         s2 = os.lstat(parent)
-    except OSError:
+    except (OSError, ValueError):
         return False
 
     dev1 = s1.st_dev