Walking The Right Path

[Tim Daneliuk]

Ah yes, moral philosophy and python all come together... Er, that is to day:

Imagine you have this situation on a *nix filesystem:

Symlink A:  /foo -> /usr/home
Symlink B:  /bar -> /foo/username


If I do this:

   import os
   print os.path.realpath("/bar")

I get this (as one would expect):

   /usr/home/username

However, what if I want to get back the result in this form:

   /foo/username


IOW, is there a way to return a symlink-based path which contains
the symlink pointer as is was *defined* not as it expands?


TIA,
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