Scott Leerssen <sleers...@gmail.com> added the comment: here is a diff of a better fix based on the previous patch:
Index: tarfile.py =================================================================== --- tarfile.py (revision 49758) +++ tarfile.py (working copy) @@ -2239,12 +2239,14 @@ if hasattr(os, "symlink") and hasattr(os, "link"): # For systems that support symbolic and hard links. if tarinfo.issym(): - if os.path.exists(targetpath): + if os.path.lexists(targetpath): os.unlink(targetpath) os.symlink(tarinfo.linkname, targetpath) else: # See extract(). if os.path.exists(tarinfo._link_target): + if os.path.lexists(targetpath): + os.unlink(targetpath) os.link(tarinfo._link_target, targetpath) else: self._extract_member(self._find_link_target(tarinfo), targetpath) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10761> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com