From b1e6c88b489f1c491b472af58399f4d87d388bfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: barneygale <barney.gale@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 02:09:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] bpo-43757: Document os.path.realpath(strict=True) in 3.10
 whatsnew.

---
 Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
index cdb15a06e9e3c5..f42b830fa78706 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
@@ -1089,6 +1089,14 @@ Add :data:`~os.O_EVTONLY`, :data:`~os.O_FSYNC`, :data:`~os.O_SYMLINK`
 and :data:`~os.O_NOFOLLOW_ANY` for macOS.
 (Contributed by Dong-hee Na in :issue:`43106`.)
 
+os.path
+-------
+
+:func:`os.path.realpath` now accepts a *strict* keyword-only argument. When set
+to ``True``, :exc:`OSError` is raised if a path doesn't exist or a symlink loop
+is encountered.
+(Contributed by Barney Gale in :issue:`43757`.)
+
 pathlib
 -------