NT4 shortcuts and import

[JoeSmith at bogusaddress.com.bbs]

I really was disappointed that NT did not have symbolic links.  I find them very
usefull.  I hear that win 2000 has something called junction points that might
be similar.

Phil Harris wrote:

> You can't do that in NT.
>
> Shortcuts are not the same as links in *nix.
>
> Shortcuts are really, next to useless.
>
> Even most microsoft products don't know what to do with them, try using a
> shortcut to a folder in any standard ms product and it will fail in the same
> way.
>
> Phil
>
> Andy Freeman <anamax at earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:8koe6q$avh$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> > I'd like to use a shortcut named, say, "src", from the current
> > directory to a directory somewhere else and then use "import src.foo".
> > The problem is that NT4 thinks that the shortcut is named "src"
> > but Python thinks that the shortcut is named "src.lnk".  Note that
> > I can't use "import src.lnk.foo" because the first "." is interpreted
> > as a directory name separator, not a part of the "src.lnk" module
> > name.
> >
> > (1) How do I get Python to use "src" as the module name?
> > (2) How do I escape "." in variable names?
> >
> > I'm using Python 1.5.
> >
> > thanks,
> > -andy
> >
> >
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