Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> added the comment:
On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 12:00:31PM +0000, krey wrote: > @steven.daprano My suggestion was changing the names of the args, not the > order > > Current > def os.symlink(src, dst): > ln -s src dst So far so good. > Changing the names > def os.symlink(dst, src): > ln -s dst src That's not changing the names, that's changing the order. You're putting the destination first, and the source second. That's the opposite order to that of `ln` in all the Unixes I can find, but it matches the order of Windows, which seems to be the only OS I can see that puts the destination (the path to the symlink) first and the source (the path to the target/original) second. In any case, we have no power to change the order of arguments to `ln`. > Changing the order > def os.symlink(dst, src): > ln -s src dst And that's just confused, because you have `ln` use the same order it has now, and symlink reverse the order. > I concede that different unixes have different argnames for ln, it's a > bit of a mess. From a CS theory perspective, I think the GNU > convention makes more sense. The GNU convention is the same convention as all the other Unixes, and os.symlink. Only the documented names are different. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue44837> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
