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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex index 9f0de1f14f..b9cdea1c58 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex @@ -42,8 +42,11 @@ half of the pair returned by \code{split(\var{path})}. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{exists}{path} -Return \code{True} if \var{path} refers to an existing path. -Returns \code{False} for broken symbolic links. +Return \code{True} if \var{path} refers to an existing path. Returns +\code{False} for broken symbolic links. On some platforms, this +function may return \code{False} if permission is not granted to +execute \function{os.stat()} on the requested file, even if the +\var{path} physically exists. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{lexists}{path} |