Giampaolo Rodola' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I was reading os.readlink doc which says: > >readlink( path) > >Return a string representing the path to which the symbolic link >points. The result may be either an absolute or relative pathname; if >it is relative, it may be converted to an absolute pathname using >os.path.join(os.path.dirname(path), result). Availability: Macintosh, >Unix. > >...It's not clear to me when the returning result could be absolute >and when it could be relative. >Could someone clarify this point?
It will be relative if the symbolic link is relative, and absolute if the symbolic link is absolute. ln -s ../../over/there here1 ln -s /home/timr/spot here2 "here1" is a relative link. "here2" is an absolute link. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
