English is my first language, but I doesn't be very good at it. I was trying to endow my symlinked python module with the ability to divine where it actually resides when I came across os.readlink(), documented at http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html
I'm not sure readlink() lives up to its documentation. To wit: $ touch bar # Create an empty file $ ln -s bar foo # And a symlink to it. $ python Python 2.5.1 <... Herald "the snitch" Redacted ...> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os, os.path >>> path = "foo" >>> result = os.readlink(path) >>> result 'bar' >>> abspath = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(path), result) >>> os.path.isabs(abspath) False >>> abspath 'bar' The result makes sense, but it belies the documentation. Should I report this? Or is there another plausible interpretation? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
