[Python-Dev] Re: Relative import

[Paolo Invernizzi]

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...

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Paolo Invernizzi

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