I want to put a shortcut onto the desktop in windows (XP and later) in Python
2.6 or later. In Unix its easy using os.symlink but I can't find anything
equivalent for windows. My searches on the web led me to the code below but the
code returns the error
AttributeError: function 'CreateSymbolicLinkW' not found
so does anybody have any suggestions?
__CSL = None
def create_alias(source, linkname):
"""
Each operating system has a different way of creating an alias.
This is the windows version
"""
import os
try:
global __CSL
if __CSL is None:
import ctypes
csl = ctypes.windll.kernel32.CreateSymbolicLinkW
csl.argtypes = (ctypes.c_wchar_p, ctypes.c_wchar_p, ctypes.c_uint32)
csl.restype = ctypes.c_ubyte
__CSL = csl
flags = 0
if source is not None and os.path.isdir(source):
flags = 1
if __CSL(linkname, source, flags) == 0:
raise ctypes.WinError()
except:
print('#### Error creating a file alias from '+str(source)+' to
'+str(linkname))
return()
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