Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
I'm new to pywin32 development, but wanted to toy with creating
symlinks (and related new things) with a similar API to the current os
module. The documentation in pywin32 states that the only flag is
"SYMLINK_FLAG_DIRECTORY" (MSDN docs state that in the C++ API, the
only flag is "SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_DIRECTORY"). I don't know where to
find it; the examples that were provided showed flags being in the
same module, such as "win32pdh.PERF_DETAIL_WIZARD", but there is no
win32file.SYMLINK_FLAG_DIRECTORY on my install, nor is there a
win32file.SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_DIRECTORY (in fact, nothing of the form
win32file.SYM*). I could find no dedicated constants/flags module or
submodule. I would appreciate some help finding the constant (for now,
I am using the magic number 1 as described in the MSDN docs).
Also, it appears that CreateSymbolicLink raises an exception in some
failure circumstances (when the location that the symlink would be is
already taken up by something), but not others (when the user doesn't
have the appropriate permissions for creating symbolic links).
Devin Jeanpierre
Some previous versions of the MSDN docs listed the name incorrectly.
I'll make sure the correct name shows up in the help file and one
of the constants modules in the next build.
Regarding the permissions, I get this traceback when attempting to
execute the function without SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege
enabled:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"J:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py",
line 325, in RunScript
exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
File "V:\Users\Public\Documents\py\test_CreateSymbolicLink.py", line 19,
in ?
win32file.CreateSymbolicLink(fname2,fname1,Transaction=trans)
error: (1314, 'CreateSymbolicLink', 'A required privilege is not held by the
client.')
How are you verifying that the function failed ?
Roger
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