On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:34:00 -0500, Jerry Hill wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:25 PM, W. eWatson <wolftra...@invalid.com> > wrote: >> So what's the bottom line? This link notion is completely at odds with >> XP, and produces what I would call something of a mess to the unwary >> Python/W7 user. Is there a simple solution? > > I know people went off on a tangent talking about symbolic links and > hard links, but it is extremely unlikely that you created something like > that by accident. Windows just doesn't create those without you doing > quite a bit of extra work. It certainly doesn't create them when you > drag & drop files around through the normal interface.
I find it far more likely that Windows 7 makes it easy for the user to accidentally produce links rather than copies, rather than that Python suddenly has developed a bug where it opens a completely different file to the one you ask for. But more likely still is some confusion regarding paths. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list