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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients andrewnester, eryksun, sayanchowdhury, serhiy.storchaka, wrohdewald, xiang.zhang
Date 2017-03-04.06:03:52
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This is not about how a symbolic link is represented. This is about how the operation of creating a symbolic link is represented. The first filename is the first argument of os.symlink(), the second filename is the second argument. Try to run

    os.symlink('a', 'a_link')
    os.symlink('b', 'a_link')

You should get an error:

    FileExistsError: [Errno 17] File exists: 'b' -> 'a_link'
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Date User Action Args
2017-03-04 06:03:52serhiy.storchakasetrecipients: + serhiy.storchaka, wrohdewald, eryksun, sayanchowdhury, xiang.zhang, andrewnester
2017-03-04 06:03:52serhiy.storchakasetmessageid: <1488607432.14.0.79265995051.issue29657@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2017-03-04 06:03:52serhiy.storchakalinkissue29657 messages
2017-03-04 06:03:52serhiy.storchakacreate