[New-bugs-announce] [issue38811] Pathlib crashes when os module is missing 'link' method

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

New submission from Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk>:

Commit 6b5b013bcc22 ("bpo-26978: Implement pathlib.Path.link_to (Using os.link) (GH-12990)") introduced a new link_to method in pathlib. However, this makes pathlib crash when the 'os' module is missing a 'link' method, as can be seen in the report in this CI test:

https://travis-ci.org/tohojo/flent/jobs/611950252

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 356670
nosy: tohojo
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Pathlib crashes when os module is missing 'link' method
type: crash
versions: Python 3.8

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