Find out link location

[holger krekel]

Klaus Hoeppner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> with the os.path module I can use the islink function to check, wether
> a file is symbolic link. But how can I find out, where the link points
> to. E.g. if I have readme.txt --> ../packages/mypackage/readme.txt how
> do I get the "../packages/mypackage/readme.txt" with python?

import os
os.readlink('/path/to/link')

regards,

    holger