Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> JBW wrote:
>> I'm not sure readlink() lives up to its documentation. ...
>> The result makes sense, but it belies the documentation. Should I report
>> this? Or is there another plausible interpretation?
>
> the part about joining with dirname(path) assumes that you pass in
JBW wrote:
I'm not sure readlink() lives up to its documentation. To wit:
$ touch bar # Create an empty file
$ ln -s bar foo # And a symlink to it.
$ python
Python 2.5.1 <... Herald "the snitch" Redacted ...>
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more infor
English is my first language, but I doesn't be very good at it.
I was trying to endow my symlinked python module with the ability to
divine where it actually resides when I came across os.readlink(),
documented at http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html
I'm not sure readlink() lives up to
