bpo-20709: os.utime(path_to_directory): wrong documentation for Windows. (GH-5469)

Remove the paragraph where we explain that os.utime() does not support a
directory as path under Windows. Patch by Jan-Philip Gehrcke

Co-authored-by: Jan-Philip Gehrcke <jgehrcke@gmail.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index 2f3b31edd5d7040145e3991155c4c920a9c1ae08..2e81459a2504430cb995c478c66aca32ae67d1f6 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -2768,14 +2768,12 @@ features:
 
    It is an error to specify tuples for both *times* and *ns*.
 
-   Whether a directory can be given for *path*
-   depends on whether the operating system implements directories as files
-   (for example, Windows does not).  Note that the exact times you set here may
-   not be returned by a subsequent :func:`~os.stat` call, depending on the
-   resolution with which your operating system records access and modification
-   times; see :func:`~os.stat`.  The best way to preserve exact times is to
-   use the *st_atime_ns* and *st_mtime_ns* fields from the :func:`os.stat`
-   result object with the *ns* parameter to `utime`.
+   Note that the exact times you set here may not be returned by a subsequent
+   :func:`~os.stat` call, depending on the resolution with which your operating
+   system records access and modification times; see :func:`~os.stat`. The best
+   way to preserve exact times is to use the *st_atime_ns* and *st_mtime_ns*
+   fields from the :func:`os.stat` result object with the *ns* parameter to
+   `utime`.
 
    This function can support :ref:`specifying a file descriptor <path_fd>`,
    :ref:`paths relative to directory descriptors <dir_fd>` and :ref:`not

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-01-10-57-24.bpo-20709.1flcnc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-01-10-57-24.bpo-20709.1flcnc.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Remove the paragraph where we explain that os.utime() does not support a
+directory as path under Windows. Patch by Jan-Philip Gehrcke