[Python-Dev] Re: Relative import (original) (raw)

Paolo Invernizzi paoloinvernizzi at dmsware.com
Thu Dec 18 10🔞22 EST 2003

Skip Montanaro wrote:

I have something which looks like a symlink on my Win2k box. Windows calls it a Shortcut in listings. Is that not roughly the same thing as a symlink?

No, the NT file system as nothing as flexible as a symlink.

If we are speaking about symlinks to files, windows shortcuts are barely usable only for pointing to executable for execution in a console (but they have a lot of redirection problems).

If you open a shortcut you are actually opening the shortcut itself, not the thing it's pointing to ;-(

Shortcuts to a directory is only usable by Explorer-like-programs, I don't know any usable operation with them from the console...

The only way to use shortcut in python is to turn python shortcut-aware in the import machinery...

Paolo Invernizzi

Ps... cygwin is another story....

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