[issue12971] os.isdir() should contain skiplinks=False in arguments

[Larry Hastings]

Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> added the comment:

First: there's no chance this will go into 3.1, 3.2, or 3.3 at this point.

Second: I can assure you that switching to the l... version of a function and not following the last symlink is exactly what "follow_symlinks" is for.  Please see the 3.3 documentation on follow_symlinks for more:

http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/os.html#follow-symlinks

Third: I think it's better to keep os.isdir() simple.  Users who want more sophisticated use cases (what to do about symlinks, using a dir_fd parameter) should use os.stat().  So I'm -1 on this.

TBH I'm not sure this even warrants a documentation change ("for more functionality, use os.stat()").

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versions:  -Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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