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authorHynek Schlawack <hs@ox.cx>2012-06-23 15:58:42 (GMT)
committerHynek Schlawack <hs@ox.cx>2012-06-23 15:58:42 (GMT)
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#4489: Add a shutil.rmtree that isn't suspectible to symlink attacks
It is used automatically on platforms supporting the necessary os.openat() and os.unlinkat() functions. Main code by Martin von Löwis.
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Library
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+- Issue #4489: Add a shutil.rmtree that isn't suspectible to symlink attacks.
+ It is used automatically on platforms supporting the necessary os.openat()
+ and os.unlinkat() functions. Main code by Martin von Löwis.
+
- Issue #15114: the strict mode of HTMLParser and the HTMLParseError exception
are deprecated now that the parser is able to parse invalid markup.