[issue45114] bad example for os.stat

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset dc9322a91d48c80afe8329bb509673a2f74fb925 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.9': bpo-45114: Use lstat() instead of stat() in stat docs example (GH-29845) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/dc9322a91d48c80afe8329bb509673a2f74fb925

[issue45114] bad example for os.stat

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 23c0200c436714a3f9b38d5e6cac230ceacd4c43 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.10': bpo-45114: Use lstat() instead of stat() in stat docs example (GH-29845) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/23c0200c436714a3f9b38d5e6cac230ceacd4c43

[issue45114] bad example for os.stat

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[issue45114] bad example for os.stat

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[issue45114] bad example for os.stat

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[issue45114] bad example for os.stat

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[issue45114] bad example for os.stat

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[issue45114] bad example for os.stat

New submission from Harri : The example on https://docs.python.org/3/library/stat.html should be improved to avoid endless recursion, if there is a symlink loop. I would suggest to use os.lstat instead of os.stat. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 401133