How to delete a symbolic link in python?

os.unlink() works for me. It removes the symlink without removing the directory that it links to.

The accepted answer does not work on Windows with links created via mklink /D. If that is your problem the answer has been posted in this question: Delete Symlink to directory on Windows

The following code should work on both systems:

if(os.path.isdir(targetLink)):
    os.rmdir(targetLink)
else:
    os.unlink(targetLink)

Sorry,my Bad, I had made a stupid programming mistake : I was stupidly deleting the source instead of the links.

The correct answer is by @samfrances.

os.unlink does the trick.

In addition to this, here some other tips if you want to clear a directory using python:

Definitely not threadsafe, but you get the idea...

def rm(obj):

    if os.path.exists(obj):
        if os.path.isdir(obj):
            if os.path.islink(obj):
                 os.unlink(obj)
            else:
                shutil.rmtree(obj)
        else:
            if os.path.islink(obj):
                os.unlink(obj)
            else:
                os.remove(obj)