Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset f463387d2434 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '2.7':
clarify that islink only really works if python knows about symlinks (closes
#13143)
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f463387d2434
New changeset db7887f3e6a2 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '3.4':
Yayoi Ukai added the comment:
Documentation is updated to be more clear
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35515/mywork.patch
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Changes by Eric V. Smith e...@trueblade.com:
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Jason R. Coombs jar...@jaraco.com added the comment:
Thanks Garen for the detailed analysis and writeup. The short answer to your
question is supported by the Python runtime. Allow me to provide a bit of
history.
Symlink awareness under Windows was added to Python in Python 3.2, so the
Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com added the comment:
Symlink awareness under Windows was added to Python in Python 3.2
If they are not available on Windows with 2.7, the doc should get an
availability: unix or something similar (depending on where they are actually
supported), or mention
New submission from Garen garen.par...@gmail.com:
The documentation for os.path.islink says:
Return True if path refers to a directory entry that is a symbolic link.
Always False if symbolic links are not supported.
But what does supported mean? Supported by what? Supported by the OS, or
