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authorJason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com>2013-05-28 03:21:28 (GMT)
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Issue #13772: Restored directory detection of targets in `os.symlink` on Windows, which was temporarily removed in Python 3.2.3 due to an incomplete implementation. The implementation now works even if the symlink is created in a location other than the current directory.
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Library
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+- Issue #13772: Restored directory detection of targets in ``os.symlink`` on
+ Windows, which was temporarily removed in Python 3.2.3 due to an incomplete
+ implementation. The implementation now works even if the symlink is created
+ in a location other than the current directory.
+
- Issue #16986: ElementTree now correctly parses a string input not only when
an internal XML encoding is UTF-8 or US-ASCII.