[issue45114] bad example for os.stat

New submission from Harri harri@afaics.de:
The example on https://docs.python.org/3/library/stat.html should be improved to avoid endless recursion, if there is a symlink loop. I would suggest to use os.lstat instead of os.stat.
---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 401133 nosy: docs@python, harridu priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: bad example for os.stat versions: Python 3.9
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Change by jiahua wang wjh180909@gmail.com:
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Jelle Zijlstra jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com added the comment:
New changeset c93a0ac6972221787d8bea1c41a9feb667ed3d2c by 180909 in branch 'main': bpo-45114: Use lstat() instead of stat() in stat docs example (GH-29845) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c93a0ac6972221787d8bea1c41a9feb667e...
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Change by miss-islington mariatta.wijaya+miss-islington@gmail.com:
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Change by miss-islington mariatta.wijaya+miss-islington@gmail.com:
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Change by Jelle Zijlstra jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com:
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miss-islington mariatta.wijaya+miss-islington@gmail.com added the comment:
New changeset 23c0200c436714a3f9b38d5e6cac230ceacd4c43 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.10': bpo-45114: Use lstat() instead of stat() in stat docs example (GH-29845) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/23c0200c436714a3f9b38d5e6cac230ceac...
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miss-islington mariatta.wijaya+miss-islington@gmail.com added the comment:
New changeset dc9322a91d48c80afe8329bb509673a2f74fb925 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.9': bpo-45114: Use lstat() instead of stat() in stat docs example (GH-29845) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/dc9322a91d48c80afe8329bb509673a2f74...
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