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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
@eschwartz: The presence of symlinks should not matter, since python's rmtree implementation does not call itself with symlinks as arguments. The only way it can happen is if os.lstat fails for a path. Then the rmtree() implementation just assumes the path is a directory. I dont know why rmtree was designed to ignore lstat failures.
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Sorry

presence of symlinks ==> is a symlink (if I read the docs right).
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