On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 11:17:22 +0000
Barney Gale <barney.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Pathlib's symlink_to() and link_to() methods have different argument
> orders, so:
> 
>     a.symlink_to(b)  # Creates a symlink from A to B
>     a.link_to(b)  # Creates a hard link from B to A
> 
> I don't think link_to() was intended to be implemented this way, as the
> docs say "Create a hard link pointing to a path named target.". It's also
> inconsistent with everything else in pathlib, most obviously symlink_to().
> 
> Bug report here: https://bugs.python.org/issue39291
> 
> This /really/ irks me. Apparently it's too late to fix link_to(), so I'd
> like to suggest we add a new hardlink_to() method that matches the
> symlink_to() argument order. link_to() then becomes deprecated/undocumented.

I think that's a good idea.

Regards

Antoine.

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