What's Going on between Python and win7?

[John Bokma]

Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> writes:

> 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??

Which leads you to this conclusion?

According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365006(VS.85).aspx

    There are three types of file links supported in the NTFS file
    system: hard links, junctions, and symbolic links. This topic is an
    overview of hard links and junctions. For information about symbolic
    links, see Creating Symbolic Links.

Creating Symbolic Links:
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363878(VS.85).aspx

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