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

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Dec 18 17:13:03 EST 2003

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com>:

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?

Only if it's transparent to the system calls which operate on files (e.g. open()ing it opens the file that it refers to, etc.) I don't believe that's the case with Windows shortcuts.

Macintosh "aliases" have the same problem. (And now with MacOS X, we have both aliases and symlinks in the same system, just to add to the confusion...)

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