STINNER Victor <vstin...@redhat.com> added the comment:

Historically, Python used to mimick the libc: there are os.stat() and 
os.lstat() for example. But later, os.stat(*, follow_symlinks=False) 
keyword-only parameter has been added: if true, lstat() is used internally.

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