[python-win32] Question on parsing Reparse Points

2009-03-19 Thread Philip Bloom
Hello, This is my first post the python win32 programming list, so hello. I'm trying to figure out a way to tell where a Reparse Point () is really pointing programmatically. I can determine pretty easily a folder is a Junction (win32api.GetFileAttributes(folder)==1040), but from there, I can't

Re: [python-win32] Question on parsing Reparse Points

2009-03-23 Thread Philip Bloom
Thanks very much for that. That was pretty much old win32 black magic to me and it totally solved my trouble. :) -Original Message- From: python-win32-bounces+pbloom=crystald@python.org [mailto:python-win32-bounces+pbloom=crystald@python.org] On Behalf Of Roger Upole Sent: Friday,

Re: [python-win32] regarding invoking command prompt using python

2009-06-17 Thread Philip Bloom
That logic seems weird to me. This is why it feels weird: The cmd shell itself is a running application that only changes its own environment parameters. This is no different from the limitation that Python's os.putenv has, as it only affects the Cmd process and children of that process. It doe