On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:10:44 -0000 "Armin Ronacher" <armin.ronac...@active-4.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > Am 21.06.2012 12:23, schrieb Armin Ronacher: > > Does the code handle a chain of absolute and relative symlinks > > correctly, for example a relative symlink that points to another > > relative symlink in a different directory that points to a file in a > > third directry? > No, but that's a good point. It should attempt to resolve these in a loop > until it either loops too often (would have to check the POSIX spec for a > reasonable value) or until it terminates by finding an actual file or > directory.
You could take a look at the resolve() algorithm in pathlib: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pathlib/ Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
