NTFS reparse points

[Stanislaw Findeisen]

I want to create a reparse point on NTFS (any).

Here 
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/reparse_points.asp) 
I read: "reparse points are used to implement NTFS file system links". 
Here 
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/hard_links_and_junctions.asp) 
I read: "Soft links are implemented through reparse points".

However I can't see FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT turned on in any file / 
directory shortcuts I create. In fact the only attribute set in 
shortcuts created using Windows Explorer is FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE. (I 
am using GetFileAttributes() to examine this.)

The questions are:

(1) Why is that so?
(2) Does anybody have any idea (sample code?) on how to create a reparse 
point (the simpler, the better) using Python?

I am using Windows 2000 Professional, Python 2.4 and Mark Hammond's 
Python for Windows Extensions build 204.

Thank you.

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