stat doesn't work!

[Paulo Pinto]

It works now.
Thanks for your answers.

Paulo Pinto wrote:
> 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
>