Antoine Pitrou added the comment: os.path.isdir("foo") will return True if "foo" is a symlink to a directory, and then shutil.rmtree("foo") will fail:
>>> os.path.isdir("foo") True >>> os.path.islink("foo") True >>> shutil.rmtree("foo") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/antoine/opt/lib/python3.3/shutil.py", line 456, in rmtree "Not a directory: '{}'".format(path)) NotADirectoryError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: 'foo' ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15776> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com