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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/tarfile.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/tarfile.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py index 105a75880d..6b9303e898 100644 --- a/Lib/tarfile.py +++ b/Lib/tarfile.py @@ -2239,12 +2239,14 @@ class TarFile(object): if hasattr(os, "symlink") and hasattr(os, "link"): # For systems that support symbolic and hard links. if tarinfo.issym(): - if os.path.exists(targetpath): + if os.path.lexists(targetpath): os.unlink(targetpath) os.symlink(tarinfo.linkname, targetpath) else: # See extract(). if os.path.exists(tarinfo._link_target): + if os.path.lexists(targetpath): + os.unlink(targetpath) os.link(tarinfo._link_target, targetpath) else: self._extract_member(self._find_link_target(tarinfo), targetpath) |