From: Barney Gale <barney.gale@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 12:17:04 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: bpo-39906: Document new follow_symlinks argument to pathlib.Path.stat() and chmod... 
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bpo-39906: Document new follow_symlinks argument to pathlib.Path.stat() and chmod() in 3.10 whatsnew. (GH-26089)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
index f42b830fa787..2d11efba4d01 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
@@ -1112,6 +1112,11 @@ supersedes :meth:`~pathlib.Path.link_to`. The new method has the same argument
 order as :meth:`~pathlib.Path.symlink_to`.
 (Contributed by Barney Gale in :issue:`39950`.)
 
+:meth:`pathlib.Path.stat` and :meth:`~pathlib.Path.chmod` now accept a
+*follow_symlinks* keyword-only argument for consistency with corresponding
+functions in the :mod:`os` module.
+(Contributed by Barney Gale in :issue:`39906`.)
+
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