On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 08:42, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > You should be able to use symlinks even on Windows these days > > (although granted they won't on portable media that uses a non-symlink > > friendly filesystem, regardless of OS). > > Plus I'm not sure Windows XP supports true symlinks - I think you have to > make > do with "junctions" a.k.a. "reparse points" which are more shambolic than > symbolic ;-) I know symlinks are available on Vista, Windows Server 2008 > and > later, but XP is still very common. I don't think we have any stdlib support for junctions, although we could certainly add it. In 3.2 we added symlink support for files and directories, which as you say is a Vista and beyond feature.
_______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com