[issue1669] shutil.rmtree fails on symlink, after deleting contents
Guido van Rossum
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Dec 20 18:25:12 CET 2007
Guido van Rossum added the comment:
I agree with Tesiph, more useful behavior would be to raise an error
immediately because the argument is not a directory. If you wanted to
remove the think linked to, you could use rmtree("foo/.",
ignore_errors=True).
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nosy: +gvanrossum
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