Implement #1578269. Patch by Jason R. Coombs.
Added Windows support for os.symlink when run on Windows 6.0 or greater,
aka Vista. Previous Windows versions will raise NotImplementedError
when trying to symlink.
Includes numerous test updates and additions to test_os, including
a symlink_support module because of the fact that privilege escalation
is required in order to run the tests to ensure that the user is able
to create symlinks. By default, accounts do not have the required
privilege, so the escalation code will have to be exposed later (or
documented on how to do so). I'll be following up with that work next.
Note that the tests use ctypes, which was agreed on during the PyCon
language summit.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d1edda2..729c010 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -1406,6 +1406,9 @@
Extension Modules
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+- Issue #1578269: Implement os.symlink for Windows 6.0+. Patch by
+ Jason R. Coombs
+
- In struct.pack, correctly propogate exceptions from computing the truth of an
object in the '?' format.