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authorBrian Curtin <brian.curtin@gmail.com>2010-12-28 14:31:47 (GMT)
committerBrian Curtin <brian.curtin@gmail.com>2010-12-28 14:31:47 (GMT)
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Fix #9333. The symlink function is always available now, raising OSError
when the user doesn't hold the symbolic link privilege rather than hiding it.
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@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
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+- Issue 9333: os.symlink now available regardless of user privileges.
+ The function now raises OSError on Windows >=6.0 when the user is unable
+ to create symbolic links. XP and 2003 still raise NotImplementedError.
+
- Issue #10783: struct.pack() doesn't encode implicitly unicode to UTF-8
anymore.