polaris.io.symlink

polaris.io.symlink(target, link_name, overwrite=True)

From https://stackoverflow.com/a/55742015/7728169 Create a symbolic link named link_name pointing to target. If link_name exists then FileExistsError is raised, unless overwrite=True. When trying to overwrite a directory, IsADirectoryError is raised.

Parameters:

• target (str) – The file path to link to

• link_name (str) – The name of the new link

• overwrite (bool, optional) – Whether to replace an existing link if one already exists