JBW wrote:
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?
the part about joining with dirname(path) assumes that you pass in an
absolute path to the readlink function.
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