diff -r f44b8d69e5fc Lib/test/test_posixpath.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py	Thu Nov 29 19:03:37 2012 -0800
+++ b/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py	Fri Nov 30 21:39:12 2012 +0100
@@ -152,18 +152,17 @@
                 True
             )
             # If we don't have links, assume that os.stat() doesn't return resonable
-            # inode information and thus, that samefile() doesn't work
+            # inode information and thus, that samestat() doesn't work
             if hasattr(os, "symlink"):
-                if hasattr(os, "symlink"):
-                    os.symlink(test_support.TESTFN + "1", test_support.TESTFN + "2")
-                    self.assertIs(
-                        posixpath.samestat(
-                            os.stat(test_support.TESTFN + "1"),
-                            os.stat(test_support.TESTFN + "2")
-                        ),
-                        True
-                    )
-                    os.remove(test_support.TESTFN + "2")
+                os.symlink(test_support.TESTFN + "1", test_support.TESTFN + "2")
+                self.assertIs(
+                    posixpath.samestat(
+                        os.stat(test_support.TESTFN + "1"),
+                        os.stat(test_support.TESTFN + "2")
+                    ),
+                    True
+                )
+                os.remove(test_support.TESTFN + "2")
                 f = open(test_support.TESTFN + "2", "wb")
                 f.write("bar")
                 f.close()