Paul Ganssle <[email protected]> added the comment:
> I don't spend enough time dealing with symlinks to have strong opinions
> there, but given we have ways to resolve symlinks but not to get back to the
> original name (and I *have* had to deal with issues where I've needed to find
> the original name from the target :roll-eyes:) I'd say don't resolve anything
> eagerly.
You mean treating symlinks to directories like files? I suppose that's a
possibility, but I do think it will end up being a source of bugs around
symlinking.
Admittedly, it *is* apparently what rglob('*') does (just tested it -
apparently it won't follow symlinks to directories), though I think it might be
a better interface to try to break cycles rather than not follow symlinks
(particularly since `iterdir` currently treats symlinks to directories as
directories).
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