to follow or not to follow a symlink in os.utime() os POSIX

[Gribouillis]

what is meant by "using"? trying to access it as an attribute?

They mean that some functions in the os module have a follow_symlinks= keyword argument in their parameter list, for example the

os.stat()

function has such a parameter.

On my system, I have

>>> import os
>>> os.stat in os.supports_follow_symlinks
True

It means that I can use the follow_symlinks argument and call e.g.

os.stat(..., follow_symlinks=False)

On other systems, one cannot set this argument to False.