Compare also paths on Windows when considering ImportPathMismatchError

On Windows, os.path.samefile returns false for paths mounted in UNC paths which
point to the same location.

I couldn't reproduce the actual case reported, but looking at the code it seems
this commit should fix the issue.

Fix #7678
Fix #8076

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/_pytest/pathlib.py b/src/_pytest/pathlib.py
index 6a36ae17a..8875a28f8 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/pathlib.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/pathlib.py
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ def import_path(
             module_file = module_file[: -(len(os.path.sep + "__init__.py"))]
 
         try:
-            is_same = os.path.samefile(str(path), module_file)
+            is_same = _is_same(str(path), module_file)
         except FileNotFoundError:
             is_same = False
 
@@ -553,6 +553,20 @@ def import_path(
     return mod
 
 
+# Implement a special _is_same function on Windows which returns True if the two filenames
+# compare equal, to circumvent os.path.samefile returning False for mounts in UNC (#7678).
+if sys.platform.startswith("win"):
+
+    def _is_same(f1: str, f2: str) -> bool:
+        return Path(f1) == Path(f2) or os.path.samefile(f1, f2)
+
+
+else:
+
+    def _is_same(f1: str, f2: str) -> bool:
+        return os.path.samefile(f1, f2)
+
+
 def resolve_package_path(path: Path) -> Optional[Path]:
     """Return the Python package path by looking for the last
     directory upwards which still contains an __init__.py.