Need to create a soft link to a file

[Markus]

Solved ;-)

I've found the symlink() function which works for me.

Thanks,
Mark


Markus wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running on Mac OS X and need to create a soft link to a file.
> 
> I tried both makealias() and link(). While makealias creates a Finder 
> alias just fine my application that needs to read the reference file 
> doesn't like this. link() produces 1) a hard link and b) gives me the 
> following error:  OSError: [Errno 45] Operation not supported
> 
> I guess what I'm looking for is a way to call the Unix ln command from 
> within my python program.
> 
> How would I do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark