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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2022-10-08 03:15:08 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-10-08 03:15:08 (GMT)
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gh-57179: Add note on symlinks for os.walk (GH-94799)
(cherry picked from commit 0f498f1a95306995ca1e287f552c5c3d856be02d) Co-authored-by: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -288,7 +288,8 @@ def walk(top, topdown=True, onerror=None, followlinks=False):
dirpath, dirnames, filenames
dirpath is a string, the path to the directory. dirnames is a list of
- the names of the subdirectories in dirpath (excluding '.' and '..').
+ the names of the subdirectories in dirpath (including symlinks to directories,
+ and excluding '.' and '..').
filenames is a list of the names of the non-directory files in dirpath.
Note that the names in the lists are just names, with no path components.
To get a full path (which begins with top) to a file or directory in