Skip Montanaro wrote:
I have something which looks like a symlink on my Win2k box. Windows calls it a Shortcut in listings. Is that not roughly the same thing as a symlink?
No, the NT file system as nothing as flexible as a symlink. If we are speaking about symlinks to files, windows shortcuts are barely usable only for pointing to executable for execution in a console (but they have a lot of redirection problems). If you *open* a shortcut you are actually opening the shortcut itself, not the thing it's pointing to ;-( Shortcuts to a directory is only usable by Explorer-like-programs, I don't know any usable operation with them from the console... The only way to use shortcut in python is to turn python shortcut-aware in the import machinery... --- Paolo Invernizzi Ps... cygwin is another story....