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Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:42:58 -0800
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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According to the docs [1] these functions should be available as of 2.6, 
yet they are missing on a 2.7, 3.2, and 3.4 install (ubuntu 12.10 and 14.04)

Any ideas why?

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~Ethan~

[1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.lchmod