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r58745 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-01 10:19:33 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines
#1364: os.lstat is available on Windows too, as an alias to os.stat.
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r58750 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-01 12:48:10 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 1 line
Backport of import tests for bug http://bugs.python.org/issue1293 and bug http://bugs.python.org/issue1342
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r58751 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-01 13:11:06 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 1 line
Removed non ASCII text from test as requested by Guido. Sorry :/
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r58753 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-01 13:37:02 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines
Fix markup glitch.
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r58757 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-01 14:08:14 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 4 lines
Fix bug introduced in revision 58385. Database keys could no longer
have NULL bytes in them. Replace the errant strdup with a
malloc+memcpy. Adds a unit test for the correct behavior.
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r58758 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-01 14:15:36 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 3 lines
Undo revision 58533 58534 fixes. Those were a workaround for
a problem introduced by 58385.
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r58759 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-01 14:17:47 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines
false "fix" undone as correct problem was found and fixed.
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r58765 | mark.summerfield | 2007-11-02 01:24:59 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 3 lines
Added more file-handling related cross-references.
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r58766 | nick.coghlan | 2007-11-02 03:09:12 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 1 line
Fix for bug 1705170 - contextmanager swallowing StopIteration (2.5 backport candidate)
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r58784 | thomas.heller | 2007-11-02 12:10:24 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 4 lines
Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
--with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes" because the
bundled libffi sources are too old.
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r58785 | thomas.heller | 2007-11-02 12:11:23 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 1 line
Enable the full ctypes c_longdouble tests again.
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r58796 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-02 13:06:17 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 4 lines
Make "hashable" a glossary entry and clarify docs on __cmp__, __eq__ and __hash__.
I hope the concept of hashability is better understandable now.
Thanks to Tim Hatch for pointing out the flaws here.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index e627498..a550739 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
:mod:`posix` or :mod:`nt`. If you just want to read or write a file see
:func:`open`, if you want to manipulate paths, see the :mod:`os.path`
module, and if you want to read all the lines in all the files on the
-command line see the :mod:`fileinput` module.
+command line see the :mod:`fileinput` module. For creating temporary
+files and directories see the :mod:`tempfile` module, and for high-level
+file and directory handling see the :mod:`shutil` module.
This module searches for an operating system dependent built-in module like
:mod:`mac` or :mod:`posix` and exports the same functions and data as found
@@ -800,8 +802,9 @@
.. function:: lstat(path)
- Like :func:`stat`, but do not follow symbolic links. Availability: Macintosh,
- Unix.
+ Like :func:`stat`, but do not follow symbolic links. This is an alias for
+ :func:`stat` on platforms that do not support symbolic links, such as
+ Windows.
.. function:: mkfifo(path[, mode])
@@ -852,6 +855,9 @@
``0777`` (octal). On some systems, *mode* is ignored. Where it is used, the
current umask value is first masked out. Availability: Macintosh, Unix, Windows.
+ It is also possible to create temporary directories; see the
+ :mod:`tempfile` module's :func:`tempfile.mkdtemp` function.
+
.. function:: makedirs(path[, mode])