Need to create a soft link to a file

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Markus" <m.a.r.k at gmx.de> wrote:

> I'm running on Mac OS X and need to create a soft link to a file.
>
> I tried both makealias() and link(). While makealias creates a Finder alias just fine my 
> application that needs to read the reference file doesn't like this. link() produces 1) a hard 
> link and b) gives me the following error:  OSError: [Errno 45] Operation not supported
>
> I guess what I'm looking for is a way to call the Unix ln command from within my python program.

A plain "ln" uses link(), of course.  Assuming you meant "symbolic link"
and "ln -s", and that Mac OS X works like other Unixes, the function
you're looking for is called os.symlink:

>>> help(os.symlink)

symlink(...)
    symlink(src, dst)

    Create a symbolic link.

Hope this helps!

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