[Python-checkins] bpo-39906: Document new follow_symlinks argument to pathlib.Path.stat() and chmod() in 3.10 whatsnew. (GH-26089)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2d972b8e7cb5347ddf83dfcee461f550b59f0736
commit: 2d972b8e7cb5347ddf83dfcee461f550b59f0736
branch: 3.10
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2021-05-13T05:35:01-07:00
summary:

bpo-39906: Document new follow_symlinks argument to pathlib.Path.stat() and chmod() in 3.10 whatsnew. (GH-26089)

(cherry picked from commit 366c69f3f63a2a1cce57dabe8f7c2e67d1df625d)

Co-authored-by: Barney Gale <barney.gale at gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
index cdb15a06e9e3c..b0920294572b5 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
@@ -1104,6 +1104,11 @@ supersedes :meth:`~pathlib.Path.link_to`. The new method has the same argument
 order as :meth:`~pathlib.Path.symlink_to`.
 (Contributed by Barney Gale in :issue:`39950`.)
 
+:meth:`pathlib.Path.stat` and :meth:`~pathlib.Path.chmod` now accept a
+*follow_symlinks* keyword-only argument for consistency with corresponding
+functions in the :mod:`os` module.
+(Contributed by Barney Gale in :issue:`39906`.)
+
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