[Python-Dev] Updates to PEP 471, the os.scandir() proposal (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Thu Jul 10 02:23:17 CEST 2014

2014-07-09 17:26 GMT+02:00 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>:

On 9 July 2014 16:05, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

The PEP says that DirEntry should mimic pathlib.Path, so I think that DirEntry.isdir() should work as os.path.isir(): if the entry is a symbolic link, you should follow the symlink to get the status of the linked file with os.stat(). (...) As a Windows user with only a superficial understanding of how symlinks should behave, (...)

FYI Windows also supports symbolic links since Windows Vista. The feature is unknown because it is restricted to the administrator account. Try the "mklink" command in a terminal (cmd.exe) ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

... To be honest, I never created a symlink on Windows. But since it is supported, you need to know it to write correctly your Windows code.

(It's unrelated to "LNK" files.)

Victor

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