New submission from Jason R. Coombs <jar...@jaraco.com>:

A few years ago, Windows [announced more lenient support for creating symbolic 
links](). This more lenient support requires the caller to pass a flag in the 
API. Neither the blog post nor the API docs give any indication of why one 
would not ever pass that flag, and passing it will enable symlink to work in 
more cases that work in Unix, so I believe Python should set the 
SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_ALLOW_UNPRIVILEGED_CREATE flag.

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messages: 346935
nosy: jaraco, steve.dower
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Symlink creation on Windows should work without privilege escalation
versions: Python 3.9

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