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Author	amaury.forgeotdarc
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, brian.curtin, eric.smith, jaraco
Date	2010-12-02.23:38:28
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Message-id	<1291333112.95.0.246237466707.issue9333@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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So the presence of os.symlink depends on some dynamic privilege? It seems to me that it's the first time in Python. For example, os.chroot() is always available on Unix, even when the user is not root. Of course the call will fail at runtime. Why not simply raise an exception when the user has not enough privileges? (I mean OSError or WindowsError of course, not AttributeError)

So the presence of os.symlink depends on some dynamic privilege?

It seems to me that it's the first time in Python. For example, os.chroot() is always available on Unix, even when the user is not root.  Of course the call will fail at runtime.

Why not simply raise an exception when the user has not enough privileges? (I mean OSError or WindowsError of course, not AttributeError)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-12-02 23:38:33	amaury.forgeotdarc	set	recipients: + amaury.forgeotdarc, jaraco, eric.smith, brian.curtin
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2010-12-02 23:38:28	amaury.forgeotdarc	link	issue9333 messages
2010-12-02 23:38:28	amaury.forgeotdarc	create