Something's weird about System.Directory.removeDirectoryRecursive

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Thu Feb 9 23:02:49 CET 2012


On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:48:33PM -0800, John Millikin wrote:
> 
> Now, there is one case where this function *will* follow symlinks.
> However, I believe it is a bug because it produces odd behavior:

I think this is an oddity in how symlinks to directories are treated.

You can remove one with removeFile but not removeDirectory, but
doesFileExist returns False and doesDirectoryExist returns True.


Thanks
Ian




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