R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment:

The content of a symbolic symlink is a symbolic reference to another location 
in the file system.  If you had used a hard link it would certainly work as you 
expected.

The behavior with respect to symbolic links ought to be documented here:

  http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html

but doesn't seem to be.

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nosy: +ncoghlan, r.david.murray

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