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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-02-06 22:59:15 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-02-06 22:59:15 (GMT)
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No need to assign the results of expressions used only for side effects.
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diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py
index 297b68e..6be031b 100644
--- a/Lib/posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/posixpath.py
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ def islink(path):
def lexists(path):
"""Test whether a path exists. Returns True for broken symbolic links"""
try:
- st = os.lstat(path)
+ os.lstat(path)
except os.error:
return False
return True