Martin Panter <vadmium...@gmail.com> added the comment:
About “lexists”, I meant using it instead of “os.path.exits” (not “islink”). On
Linux:
>>> targetpath = 'target'
>>> os.symlink('nonexistant', dst=targetpath) # Make a broken symlink
>>> os.system('ls -l')
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 vadmium vadmium 11 Jan 6 09:28 target -> nonexistant
0
>>> os.path.exists(targetpath) # Doesn't register broken symlinks
False
>>> os.path.lexists(targetpath) # Does register it
True
Did you try extracting a tar file over a broken link? (I haven’t tried your
code; I’m just going on theory.)
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