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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2012-01-24 08:05:18 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2012-01-24 08:05:18 (GMT)
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Issue #13772: In os.symlink() under Windows, do not try to guess the link
target's type (file or directory). The detection was buggy and made the call non-atomic (therefore prone to race conditions).
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Library
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+- Issue #13772: In os.symlink() under Windows, do not try to guess the link
+ target's type (file or directory). The detection was buggy and made the
+ call non-atomic (therefore prone to race conditions).
+
- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
- Issue #13722: Avoid silencing ImportErrors when initializing the codecs