Jason R. Coombs <jar...@jaraco.com> added the comment: The deviance between the Unix and Windows symlink functions is apparent in the signature, though not explicitly-defined in any formal documentation. Perhaps the following could be included as formal documentation. Should this documentation be added to os.rst, or would another place be better?
The Windows version takes an additional, optional parameter, target_is_directory, which defaults to False. On Windows, a symlink represents a file or a directory, and does not morph to the target dynamically. For this reason, when creating a symlink on Windows, if the target is not already present, the symlink will default to being a file symlink. If target_is_directory is set to True, the symlink will be created as a directory symlink. This parameter is ignored if the target exists (and the symlink is created with the same type as the target). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1578269> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
