stat doesn't work!

[Paulo Pinto]

I am doing an application that needs to
know when it is manipulating symbolic links.

But it is failing to reckognize them.

If I run the following code:

<code>
import sys
import os
from stat import *

mode = os.stat(sys.argv[1])[ST_MODE]
if S_ISLNK(mode):
         print 'File is a link'
else:
         print 'Just a normal file'
</code>


I will alway get the 'Just a normal file'
message even though I am using a symbolic
link as argument.

I've done the same example in Perl and in
bash and it works.

Could this be a bug in my Python version
(2.2.2) or I am doing something wrong ?

Thanks in advance,
Paulo Pinto