Hi,
I want to know the target path of a windows shortcut. How do i read the short cut & retrieve the actual target path it is pointing to? I searched the internet & all the documents I found there refer to use Win32com.shell or win32com.client module but was not satisfied with the solutions given there. I don't want to create a new shortcut or update an existing one. What I want is to read the target location from an existing shortcut. The shortcut can be anywhere in my computer & not necessarily on desktop. For example - C:\temp\my_shortcut.lnk which is pointing to D:\john\temp\myfile.txt file. Here i can pass the shortcut path "C:\temp\my_shortcut.lnk" to my python script & then i want to retrieve the target file's path from that shortcut. Is there anything equivalent of os.readlink(symlink) which is used on Unix systems? Is there any way to do that using win32com.shell modules? The following code works if the target file exists & hence returns me the absolute path of the target, but fails if the shortcut is broken i.e if the target file has been removed. In the later case this code creates a target file of zero (0) size with the same path. This is bad .I want to detect the broken shortcut case. shell = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell") shortcut = shell.CreateShortCut(absolutepath) Any help to solve this issue will be highly appreciated. Regards Ayaskant Bangalore
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