Brian Curtin <cur...@acm.org> added the comment:

I'll have to investigate the possibility of the privilege occurring on XP -- 
I'm doubtful that it exists there, but I'll confirm.

Currently "os._symlink" is not exposed -- it gets swallowed up in Lib/os.py in 
the "nt" section starting on line 55 (it is available as nt._symlink, though). 
This is another point I need to confirm, but I don't think a process' available 
privileges can change during runtime, or at least I'm not familiar with that. 
For that reason, I just do the "enable_symlink()" on init and what happens 
there is what stays for the lifetime of the interpreter.

If available privileges can in fact change - and I'm not sure how we'd test 
that - "enable_symlink()" would have to be exposed.

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