[Python-Dev] If you thought there were too many PEPs...

[Guido van Rossum]

> btw, Python's remove/unlink implementation is slightly
> broken -- they both map to unlink, but that's not the
> right way to do it:
> 
> from SUSv2:
> 
>     int remove(const char *path);
> 
>     If path does not name a directory, remove(path)
>     is equivalent to unlink(path). 
> 
>     If path names a directory, remove(path) is equi-
>     valent to rmdir(path). 
> 
> should I fix this?

That's a new one -- didn't exist when I learned Unix.

I guess we can fix this in 2.1.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)