gh-57179: Add note on symlinks for os.walk (GH-94799)

(cherry picked from commit 0f498f1a95)

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@ -288,7 +288,8 @@ def walk(top, topdown=True, onerror=None, followlinks=False):
dirpath, dirnames, filenames
dirpath is a string, the path to the directory. dirnames is a list of
the names of the subdirectories in dirpath (excluding '.' and '..').
the names of the subdirectories in dirpath (including symlinks to directories,
and excluding '.' and '..').
filenames is a list of the names of the non-directory files in dirpath.
Note that the names in the lists are just names, with no path components.
To get a full path (which begins with top) to a file or directory in