Re: os.path.islink documentation error?

En Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:46:24 -0300, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Giampaolo Rodola' schrieb: >> os.path.islink documentation says: >> >> "Return True if path refers to a directory entry that is a symbolic >> link. Always False if sy

Re: os.path.islink documentation error?

:) You're right... My skimpy English cheated me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: os.path.islink documentation error?

Giampaolo Rodola' schrieb: > os.path.islink documentation says: > > "Return True if path refers to a directory entry that is a symbolic > link. Always False if symbolic links are not supported." > > It's not clear to me why it is mentioned the DIRECTORY te

os.path.islink documentation error?

os.path.islink documentation says: "Return True if path refers to a directory entry that is a symbolic link. Always False if symbolic links are not supported." It's not clear to me why it is mentioned the DIRECTORY term. Shouldn't os.path.islink be used to just check if

Re: os.path.islink()

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 20:42:09 +1000 "Egor Bolonev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i want to detect "'s" Junctions are just mount points, not symbolic links. Dunno how to detect them in Windows. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;205524 -- Denis S. Otkidach http://www.python.r

Re: os.path.islink()

Peter Maas schreef: > Thanks for the update and my apologies to Egor. I was using Win2k for > two years and never saw a link, neither at system nor at application > locations. How nasty of Microsoft to add this feature so silently :) IIRC this is something they had to add for the US government (p

Re: os.path.islink()

JanC schrieb: There are no ntfs links. You're wrong, NTFS supports symlinks for directories and hard links for files: Thanks for the update and my apologies to Egor. I was using Win2k for

Re: os.path.islink()

Peter Maas schreef: > Egor Bolonev schrieb: > >> how to detect ntfs links? > > There are no ntfs links. You're wrong, NTFS supports symlinks for directories and hard links for files:

Re: os.path.islink()

You may well be able to do it with the win32file module functions: GetFileAttributesEx or GetFileInformationByHandle It's not my area of expertise, but usually a bit of poking around in msdn.microsoft.com yields some results, as does Googling around for other people (often VB or Delphi-based) who h

Re: os.path.islink()

Egor Bolonev wrote: gui folder link is a .lnk file What he's telling you is that Windows doesn't implement symbolic links. os.path.islink does not detect what you think it does. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA

Re: os.path.islink()

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 20:29:27 +1000, Egor Bolonev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: gui folder link is a .lnk file i want to detect "'s" C:\Documents and Settings\Егор\My Documents>dir Том в устройстве C не имеет метки. Серийный номер тома: 386D-F630 Содержим

Re: os.path.islink()

is nothing but a plain file with special content, so that os.path.islink() tells the truth. Windows "links" are a special Windows feature (shortcuts) and must be detected via Win32 api calls or by searching for content characteristics of shortcuts. gui folder link is a .lnk file -- http

Re: os.path.islink()

Egor Bolonev schrieb: far file manager said 'C:\Documents and Settings\ÐÐÐÑ\My Documents\Scripts\Antiloop\' is link how to detect ntfs links? There are no ntfs links. What appears as a link on GUI level is nothing but a plain file with special content, so that os.path.islink() tells

os.path.islink()

hi all i want my program to ignore ntfs links, but os.path.islink() isnt work as i expect print os.path.islink('''C:\Documents and Settings\Егор\My Documents\Scripts\Antiloop\'''') outputs False far file manager said 'C:\Documents and Settings\Егор\M