What's Going on between Python and win7?

[Alf P. Steinbach]

* W. eWatson:
> So what's the bottom line? This link notion is completely at odds with 
> XP,

Well, Windows NT has always had *hardlinks*. <g>

I found it a bit baffling that that functionality is documented as not 
implemented for Windows in the Python standard library.

But OK, it was non-trivial to do prior to Windows 2000; you had to sort of hack 
it using the backup APIs since the functionality was not exposed through the 
ordinary file APIs.



> and produces what I would call something of a mess to the unwary 
> Python/W7 user. Is there a simple solution?
> 
> How do I get out of this pickle? I just want to duplicate the  program 
> in another folder, and not link to an ancestor.

Copy and paste.


Cheers & hth.,

- Alf