[New-bugs-announce] [issue15461] os.stat() 's inappropriate behavior when dealing with a broken link in linux systems.

[coder.maliubiao]

New submission from coder.maliubiao <maliubiao at gmail.com>:

the code:
import os,stat
mode=os.stat("a broken link file").st_mode
then i got :OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory.

why not just treat a broken link as something existing and don't report any error.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 166519
nosy: maliubiao at gmail.com
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.stat() 's inappropriate behavior when dealing with a broken link in linux systems.
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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