Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] detecting aliases

2005-06-05 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jun 5, 2005, at 9:52 PM, Lee Cullens wrote: > Thanks for the reply Bob. I've been digging around in the Python > Documentation Macintosh and more specifically Carbon.File. > (All seems to be a bit of a secret society :~) with scant docs that > are not up to date and no content in __doc__s

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] detecting aliases

2005-06-05 Thread Lee Cullens
Thanks for the reply Bob.  I've been digging around in the Python Documentation Macintosh and more specifically Carbon.File.  (All seems to be a bit of a secret society :~) with scant docs that are not up to date and no content in __doc__s so it's a little hard going)What you noted doesn't seem to

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] detecting aliases

2005-06-05 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jun 5, 2005, at 7:09 PM, Lee Cullens wrote: > One of my little utilities needs to know when it encounters links/ > aliases. > > I can of course detect a Unix symbolic link with os.path.islink > ('path') and determine what it points to with os.readlink('path'), > but an Aqua alias only triggers

[Pythonmac-SIG] detecting aliases

2005-06-05 Thread Lee Cullens
One of my little utilities needs to know when it encounters links/ aliases. I can of course detect a Unix symbolic link with os.path.islink ('path') and determine what it points to with os.readlink('path'), but an Aqua alias only triggers os.isfile and it has a size of zero. The size is not