On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:19:55 -0500
Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 'symbolic_link' is a symbolic link in the current directory. I run
> 'python main.py', but it does not return me anything. I want to check
> if a file is a symbolic link. I'm wondering what is the correct way to
> do so?
>
> $cat main.py
> import stat
> import os
As soon as you import os the OS that you are running is relevant. I'll
assume some sort of Unix.
> st = os.stat('symbolic_link')
The os module uses the underlying OS calls. run "man 2 stat" to see
what stat does. I think you will find that lstat is what you want.
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