Checking if the file is a symlink fails

[Christian Heimes]

saswat at gmail.com wrote:
> File symLinkTest is a symbolic link.
> 
> Why S_ISLNK(mode) returns False and S_ISREG(mode) returns True ?

Because you are using os.stat() instead of os.lstat().

http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html

Christian