mosscliffe schrieb: > I am trying to create a link to a file, which I can then use in an > HTML page. > > The system is Linux on a hosted web service, running python 2.3. > Other than that I have no knowledge of the system. > > The link is created OK, but when I try to use it as filename for the > IMG TAG, it does not get displayed. The page source of the created > page is pointing to the link as temp/test1.jpg > > Any ideas ? > > srcFile = "temp/test2.jpg" > > linkFile = "temp/test1.jpg" > > if os.path.islink(linkFile): > print "Link Exists", nl > pass > else: > print "Making Link", nl > os.symlink(srcFile, linkFile) > > print '<BR><img src="%s">the image</IMG><BR><BR>' % linkFile > > print '<img src="%s">the image</IMG>' % srcFile
In what environment is that script running? If it's apache, it might be that the apache settings disallow for following links. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list