@eric.smith Fair enough, though the impact would probably be quite low in reality. Nobody seems to pass these args by keyword: https://github.com/search?q=%22os.symlink(src%3D%22&type=Code

@steven.daprano My suggestion was changing the names of the args, not the order

Current
def os.symlink(src, dst):
    ln -s src dst

Changing the names
def os.symlink(dst, src):
    ln -s dst src

Changing the order
def os.symlink(dst, src):
    ln -s src dst

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.