Need to create a soft link to a file

[Markus]

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

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Markus" <m.*****@gmx.de> wrote:

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.

A plain "ln" uses link(), of course. Assuming you meant "symbolic link"
and "ln -s", and that Mac OS X works like other Unixes, the function
you're looking for is called os.symlink:

help(os.symlink)

symlink(...)
symlink(src, dst)

Create a symbolic link.

Hope this helps!

</F>

[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