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Local timezone check doesn't follow symlinks #33
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One possible solution is to add the
follow_symlinks=Trueas a parameter toos.walk, accepting the risk that this might never complete on it's own asos.walkdoesn't track the directories it visits.https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.walk
Note Be aware that setting followlinks to True can lead to infinite recursion if a link points to a parent directory of itself. walk() does not keep track of the directories it visited already.
Python documentationSource code: Lib/os.py This module provides a portable way of using operating system dependent functionality. If you just want to read or write a file see open(), if you want to manipulate paths, s...
_load_local_tzinfo()loads timezone files from/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix, and usesos.walk()to list the files.But by default
os.walkdoesn't follow symlinks, so if the timezone files in/usr/share/zoneinfo/posixare symlinks to other locations (which doesn't seem terribly rare), those files won't be read in.This can result in failing to load a timezone that matches
/etc/timezone.