Scott Leerssen <sleers...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I just hit the same issue. This seems to work:
Modified:Lib/tarfile.py
===================================================================
---Lib/tarfile.py 2011-04-26 20:36:33 UTC (rev 49502)
+++Lib/tarfile.py 2011-04-26 21:01:24 UTC (rev 49503)
@@ -2239,6 +2239,8 @@
if hasattr(os, "symlink") and hasattr(os, "link"):
# For systems that support symbolic and hard links.
if tarinfo.issym():
+ if os.path.exists(targetpath):
+ os.unlink(targetpath)
os.symlink(tarinfo.linkname, targetpath)
else:
# See extract().
----------
nosy: +Scott.Leerssen
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