* Tiger12506 (Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:33:36 -0500) > > 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?
No, symbolic links and hard links are totally different. > (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? Thre are no "broken hard links"... _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
