On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 6:19 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> The problem is a lack of a symlink function that safely overwrites an > existing file or symlink. We're just bike-shedding over its spelling > and where it lives: > > - modify os.symlink and give it a "force" parameter > - add a new function into shutils How about introducing `force=False` argument to `pathlib.Path.symlink_to` method? It looks like a good place for this as `pathlib` is actually the place where higher-level things to operate on paths live already and this method already has a different name and a slightly different signature. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
