stat.S_ISLNK() does not wok!

[socketpair]

BPO	10958
Nosy	@amauryfa, @socketpair

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closed_at = <Date 2011-01-20.17:10:34.704>
created_at = <Date 2011-01-20.16:59:59.111>
labels = ['invalid', 'type-bug', 'library']
title = 'stat.S_ISLNK() does not wok!'
updated_at = <Date 2011-01-20.17:10:34.703>
user = 'https://github.com/socketpair'

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[socketpair]

ipython session:

In [48]: qwe=os.stat('/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6')
In [49]: qwe.st_mode
Out[49]: 33188
In [50]: stat.S_ISLNK(qwe.st_mode)
Out[50]: False
In [51]: stat.S_IFLNK & qwe.st_mode
Out[51]: 32768

'/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6' is really symlink !!!

python in ubuntu 10.10 and RHEL 6.0. All the same.

[amauryfa]

os.stat() follows symbolic links. You probably want to use os.lstat() instead: http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.lstat