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Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 15:48:22 -0600
From: Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
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Subject: Re: missing os.lchmod, os.lchflags
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On 2014-12-25 08:23, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On 2014-12-24 11:42, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>> 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)
> 
> http://bugs.python.org/issue7479

Indeed it does address the issue but I think documentation closer to
the POSIX-only items would be helpful (rather than one snippet at
the top).

-tkc