New submission from Tim Koopman: When using rmtree with a symlink to a directory as path, it will first follow the symlink, (try to) remove all the contents of the source directory and then raise the exception "OSError: [Errno 20] Not a directory".
Expected behaviour: The function should only raise an exception. If the current behaviour is indeed wanted, it should a least be documented. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 58864 nosy: Tesiph severity: normal status: open title: shutils.rmtree fails on symlink, after deleting contents type: behavior versions: Python 2.5 __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1669> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
