New submission from Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com>:
As discussed in issue 40654, os.readlink should provide a way to get the print name of a symlink target. This is the target path that was actually passed to WinAPI CreateSymbolicLinkW (except for drive-relative paths) and is what a shell would display as the link target (e.g. CMD's "dir" command). Perhaps a keyword-only parameter could be supported to query the print name, e.g. readlink(path, printname=True). In POSIX, passing printname=True would make no difference, since a POSIX symlink only has a substitute name. ---------- components: Library (Lib), Windows messages: 370389 nosy: eryksun, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: os.readlink should support getting the target's printname in Windows type: enhancement versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue40827> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
