> Adam wrote: > >>From the library documentation: > Return True if path refers to an existing path. Returns False for > broken symbolic links. On some platforms, this function may return > False if permission is not granted to execute os.stat() on the > requested file, even if the path physically exists. > > So the better question is, does is this file a broken symbolic link or > can os.stat() be executed on it? > > How do I find if it is a broken symbolic link in Windows 2000 ? > > os.stat(path) returns an OSError saying that there is no such file or > directory
Wow. I've never heard of this. What are the file's attributes? What does it say about the file when you right-click Properties? Hmmm... what's going on here? Permission not granted to execute os.stat()? Why wouldn't anyone have permission to do that? A broken symbolic link... That means a hard link that has been cut-off right? (Hard-links are like pointers to files in NTFS) ~ so if the file's been moved, that hard link will point to nothing, being broken, right? Does anyone know about this? I'm curious. JS _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
