As it is now, the stat module follow symlinks instead of returning stat information of the link itself. For example, /etc/localtime is a symlink but stat reports (abbreviated output below):

$ hacking/test-module -m library/files/stat -a 'path=/etc/localtime'

PARSED OUTPUT
{
"changed": false,
"stat": {

    "isblk": false, 
    "ischr": false, 
    "isdir": false, 
    "isfifo": false, 
    "isgid": false, 
    "islnk": false, 
    "isreg": true, 
    "issock": false, 
    "isuid": false, 

Fixing the call from os.stat to os.lstat fixes the stat module so that it properly reports that the file is a symlink (note that islnk is now true):

    "isblk": false, 
    "ischr": false, 
    "isdir": false, 
    "isfifo": false, 
    "isgid": false, 
    "islnk": true, 
    "isreg": false, 
    "issock": false, 
    "isuid": false, 

I'm happy to submit a PR to fix the stat module, but wasn't sure if the module should accept an option to follow symlinks if so desired. I think the default should be to not follow links, but am happy to implement either way.