NT4 shortcuts and import

[Phil Harris]

You can't do that in NT.

Shortcuts are not the same as links in *nix.

Shortcuts are really, next to useless.

Even most microsoft products don't know what to do with them, try using a
shortcut to a folder in any standard ms product and it will fail in the same
way.

Phil

Andy Freeman <anamax at earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:8koe6q$avh$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> I'd like to use a shortcut named, say, "src", from the current
> directory to a directory somewhere else and then use "import src.foo".
> The problem is that NT4 thinks that the shortcut is named "src"
> but Python thinks that the shortcut is named "src.lnk".  Note that
> I can't use "import src.lnk.foo" because the first "." is interpreted
> as a directory name separator, not a part of the "src.lnk" module
> name.
>
> (1) How do I get Python to use "src" as the module name?
> (2) How do I escape "." in variable names?
>
> I'm using Python 1.5.
>
> thanks,
> -andy
>
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