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Author ntkoopman
Recipients ntkoopman
Date 2007-12-20.08:53:20
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Message-id <1198140802.03.0.559721880432.issue1669@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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When using rmtree with a symlink to a directory as path, it will first
follow the symlink, (try to) remove all the contents of the source
directory and then raise the exception "OSError: [Errno 20] Not a
directory".

Expected behaviour: The function should only raise an exception.

If the current behaviour is indeed wanted, it should a least be documented.
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