Message 384569 - Python tracker

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Content 
❯ py -c "from pathlib import Path; Path('http://w.org').exists()"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python39\lib\pathlib.py", line 1407, in exists
    self.stat()
  File "C:\Python39\lib\pathlib.py", line 1221, in stat
    return self._accessor.stat(self)
OSError: [WinError 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect: 'http:\\w.org'

The above code returns correctly False on UNIX systems.