New submission from Fabien Dubosson: When using bash, the `cd` function does not follow symlinks by default, but `cd -P` does. The `os.chdir` function behaves like `cd -P` preventing to be able to change directory to a symlink folder.
Initial setup (make a `/tmp/to/dst` symlink pointing to `/tmp/from/src`): cd /tmp mkdir from from/src to ln -s ../from/src to/dst Here is an example, when using python's `os.chdir` function: [fabien@asus ~]$ python >>> import os >>> os.chdir('/tmp/to/dst') >>> os.system('/usr/bin/pwd') /tmp/from/src 0 >>> os.system('/usr/bin/pwd -P') /tmp/from/src 0 >>> os.system('/usr/bin/pwd -L') /tmp/from/src 0 >>> os.getcwd() '/tmp/from/src' >>> And here is an example when the folder is first changed with bash: [fabien@asus ~]$ cd /tmp/to/dst/ [fabien@asus dst]$ python >>> import os >>> os.system('/usr/bin/pwd') /tmp/from/src 0 >>> os.system('/usr/bin/pwd -P') /tmp/from/src 0 >>> os.system('/usr/bin/pwd -L') /tmp/to/dst 0 >>> os.getcwd() '/tmp/from/src' >>> ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29635> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com