R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: The content of a symbolic symlink is a symbolic reference to another location in the file system. If you had used a hard link it would certainly work as you expected.
The behavior with respect to symbolic links ought to be documented here: http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html but doesn't seem to be. ---------- nosy: +ncoghlan, r.david.murray _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14547> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
