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[Jorgen Grahn]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:06:42 +0800, TheSaint <fc14301589 at icqmail.com> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I still learning, but I couldn't find anything which tells me where a
> symlink is pointing to.

os.readlink()
os.lstat()

And they are /not/ Linux-specific; expect them to work on most or all
Unix-like OSes.

> A part of os.system('ls -l ' + path) and cutting down to the need, I haven't
> got any specialized function.

Both functions mentioned above are documented as part of module os, section
"Files and Directories".

/Jorgen

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