[issue29657] os.symlink: FileExistsError shows wrong message

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

This is not about how a symbolic link is represented. This is about how the operation of creating a symbolic link is represented. The first filename is the first argument of os.symlink(), the second filename is the second argument. Try to run

    os.symlink('a', 'a_link')
    os.symlink('b', 'a_link')

You should get an error:

    FileExistsError: [Errno 17] File exists: 'b' -> 'a_link'

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