lexists() is not exported from os.path

[blais]

BPO	1266283
Nosy	@birkenfeld, @birkenfeld

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[blais]

I'm not quite sure if this is desired, but looking at
posixpath.py it looks like a bug: lexists() is not in
__all__, and so

from os.path import *
...
lexists(...)

does not work.

[birkenfeld]

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Thanks for the report, fixed in 2.5 and 2.4 branches as

Lib/macpath.py; 1.52; 1.50.2.1
Lib/ntpath.py; 1.63; 1.61.2.1
Lib/os2emxpath.py; 1.15; 1.13.2.1
Lib/posixpath.py; 1.75; 1.73.2.2