Issue 1364: os.lstat documentation error (original) (raw)

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Created on 2007-10-31 03:11 by giampaolo.rodola, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg56982 - (view)	Author: Giampaolo Rodola' (giampaolo.rodola) *	Date: 2007-10-31 03:11
os module documentation says about lstat(): > lstat( path) > > Like stat(), but do not follow symbolic links. > Availability: Macintosh, Unix. This is not true since os.lstat() is also available under Windows (tested under Win XP sp, Python 2.5). Moreover, wouldn't it be better having os.lstat() available on all platforms and turn it into an alias of os.stat on those platforms which do not support symbolic links?
msg57015 - (view)	Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) *	Date: 2007-11-01 17:19
os.lstat is in fact an alias for os.stat on Windows. Corrected the docs in r58745, r58746 (2.5).
msg57020 - (view)	Author: Giampaolo Rodola' (giampaolo.rodola) *	Date: 2007-11-01 17:50
What about other platforms? I think it should be an alias for all platforms which does not support symbolic links, not only Windows.
msg57021 - (view)	Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) *	Date: 2007-11-01 17:52
It is, and this is also documented that way now.
msg57023 - (view)	Author: Giampaolo Rodola' (giampaolo.rodola) *	Date: 2007-11-01 17:58
Thanks.
msg160804 - (view)	Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev)	Date: 2012-05-16 05:07
New changeset 6480b23cdf48 by Julien Courteau in branch 'default': merge #1364 http://hg.python.org/distutils2/rev/6480b23cdf48