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Author eric.smith
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, asvetlov, eric.smith, giampaolo.rodola, jafo, jaraco, lemburg, loewis, nnorwitz, r.david.murray, swarren
Date 2009-12-18.00:48:14
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Message-id <1261097297.86.0.499232742923.issue1578269@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I apologize (again) Jason, for taking forever to move forward on this.

With patch 16 on XP, I get this error on test_platform:

======================================================================
ERROR: test_architecture_via_symlink (__main__.PlatformTest)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Lib/test/test_platform.py", line 22, in
test_architecture_via_symlink
    os.symlink(real, link)
NotImplementedError: CreateSymbolicLinkW not found

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 18 tests in 0.047s

FAILED (errors=1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Lib/test/test_platform.py", line 204, in <module>
    test_main()
  File "Lib/test/test_platform.py", line 200, in test_main
    PlatformTest
  File "c:\home\eric\python\py3k\lib\test\support.py", line 919, in
run_unittest
    _run_suite(suite)
  File "c:\home\eric\python\py3k\lib\test\support.py", line 902, in
_run_suite
    raise TestFailed(err)
test.support.TestFailed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Lib/test/test_platform.py", line 22, in
test_architecture_via_symlink
    os.symlink(real, link)
NotImplementedError: CreateSymbolicLinkW not found

I'll try to spend some time tracking it down over the weekend, but feel
free to look it over.
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2009-12-18 00:48:18eric.smithsetrecipients: + eric.smith, lemburg, loewis, nnorwitz, jafo, amaury.forgeotdarc, jaraco, giampaolo.rodola, swarren, r.david.murray, asvetlov
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