What's Going on between Python and win7?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-02-22, John Bokma <john at castleamber.com> wrote:
> Gib Bogle <g.bogle at auckland.no.spam.ac.nz> writes:
>
>> MRAB wrote:
>>> W. eWatson wrote:
>>>> Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B. It
>>>> inspects the contents of files in a folder. When I ran it in B, it
>>>> gave the results for A! Out of frustration I changed the name in A,
>>>> and fired up the program in B. Win7 went into search mode for the
>>>> file. I looked at properties for the B program, and it was clearly
>>>> pointing to folder A.
>>>>
>>> Sounds like you didn't copy it but made a shortcut to it instead.
>>
>> Windows 7 has symbolic links?
>
>    Symbolic links are designed to aid in migration and application
>    compatibility with UNIX operating systems. Microsoft has implemented
>    its symbolic links to function just like UNIX links.

So symbolic links on W7 function like Unix (hard) links
rather than Unix _symbolic_ links??

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