Jason R. Coombs <jar...@jaraco.com> added the comment: I've improved the symlink support in jaraco.windows (SVN). It now implements the symlink check based on the technique suggested by the MSDN docs.
I've begun to port this functionality to CPython. I'm attaching a patch against /branches/py3k that I believe will expose the a symlink function on Windows systems. I don't have an environment set up to compile Python, so the patch hasn't even been checked for valid syntax. I would appreciate if someone could review the patch and comment on the technique. I'm looking for confirmation that this is a reasonable approach, or suggestions. Implementing os.link will probably follow the same technique. The implementation for ntpath.symlink will be incongruent to the posix implementation, because it can't use lstat (which doesn't appear to reflect the symlink flag). Can ntpath call back into the os module (where a islink could be defined for Windows systems)? ---------- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14009/windows symlink draft 1.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1578269> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
