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Author	santoso.wijaya
Recipients	santoso.wijaya
Date	2012-01-12.01:06:47
SpamBayes Score	6.5446116e-08
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Message-id	<1326330408.97.0.484457419227.issue13775@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Consider: >>> os.symlink('.\\test', 'Lib\\bar') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: '.\\test' Where Lib\\bar is previously created. The symlink creation is rightly rejected, but with a misleading message. The failure is because 'Lib\\bar' already exists, not because of '.\\test'.

Consider:

>>> os.symlink('.\\test', 'Lib\\bar')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: '.\\test'

Where Lib\\bar is previously created. The symlink creation is rightly rejected, but with a misleading message. The failure is because 'Lib\\bar' already exists, not because of '.\\test'.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-01-12 01:06:49	santoso.wijaya	set	recipients: + santoso.wijaya
2012-01-12 01:06:48	santoso.wijaya	set	messageid: <1326330408.97.0.484457419227.issue13775@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012-01-12 01:06:47	santoso.wijaya	link	issue13775 messages
2012-01-12 01:06:47	santoso.wijaya	create