Re: Linux info

2006-06-29 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:06:42 +0800, TheSaint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello there, > > I still learning, but I couldn't find anything which tells me where a > symlink is pointing to. os.readlink() os.lstat() And they are /not/ Linux-specific; expect them to work on most or all Unix-like OSes.

Re: Linux info

2006-06-13 Thread vasudevram
os.system('ls -lL ' + path) should also work. But check, I may be wrong about the L option, and am not near a Linux system right now. That's "lL" - a small letter l (ell) followed by a capital letter L in the ls options above. This way may be slower than os.path.realpath if that is implemented as

Re: Linux info

2006-06-13 Thread faulkner
os.path.realpath TheSaint wrote: > Hello there, > > I still learning, but I couldn't find anything which tells me where a > symlink is pointing to. > A part of os.system('ls -l ' + path) and cutting down to the need, I haven't > got any specialized function. > > F -- http://mail.python.org/mail

Linux info

2006-06-13 Thread TheSaint
Hello there, I still learning, but I couldn't find anything which tells me where a symlink is pointing to. A part of os.system('ls -l ' + path) and cutting down to the need, I haven't got any specialized function. F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list