[issue33123] Path.unlink should have a missing_ok parameter

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpython at gmail.com> added the comment:

It can be written as

    try:
        path.inlink()
    except FileNotFoundError:
        pass

If you want to save few lines of code, you can use contextlib.suppress().

    with suppress(FileNotFoundError): path.inlink()

I suggest to close this issue. It is better to keep the API simple and orthogonal. Adding an option in Path.unlink() will require adding this support of this option in third-part implementations of Path. In general, adding a single boolean parameter is not considered a good practice in Python.

A "strict" parameter in Path.resolve() does the different thing. In both cases Path.resolve() returns a value, and you can't implement strict=False by catching exception externally.

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nosy: +pitrou, serhiy.storchaka

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