Raghuram Devarakonda added the comment: Please try to include stack trace in bug reports. I reproduced the error on my Linux (SuSE 10).
marvin:tmp$ ls -l dirlink testdir lrwxrwxrwx 1 raghu users 7 2007-12-20 10:10 dirlink -> testdir/ testdir: total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 raghu users 0 2007-12-20 10:36 testfile shutil.rmtree('dirlink') produces: ---------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "t.py", line 4, in <module> shutil.rmtree('dirlink') File "/localhome/raghu/localwork/cpython/python/Lib/shutil.py", line 194, in rmtree onerror(os.rmdir, path, sys.exc_info()) File "/localhome/raghu/localwork/cpython/python/Lib/shutil.py", line 192, in rmtree os.rmdir(path) OSError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: 'dirlink' ---------- While we are removing the contents of the target directory as expected, the final 'rmdir' fails on removing the symbolic link. For the sake of consistency, we can explicitly remove the target directory and leave the symbolic link intact. Is this what you are expecting? ---------- nosy: +draghuram __________________________________ 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