Re: Symlinks don't work in python???

[Jörg Schaible <joerg dot schaible at gmx dot de>]

[snip]

>   (3) Thinking that the realpath bug might be a key
>       to the python import-thru-symlinks problem,
>       I ran a simple test on recent cygwin/python
>       combinations, finding:
> 
>       Cygwin version  Python version  realpath  Import
>              1.5.xx:           2.yy:    Works?  Works?
>       --------------  --------------  --------  ------
> 
>               1.5.14             2.4        NO      NO
>               1.5.13           2.3.4       YES      NO
>               1.5.14           2.3.4       YES      NO
>               1.5.12             2.4        NO     YES
> 
>               Neither bug shows up under Linux.
> 
> Interestingly, the realpath and symlink bugs don't
> correlate: realpath seems broken in Cygwin python 2.4,
> independently of the cygwin package version, while
> the import bug shows up in either python version under
> cygwin packages since 1.5.13.
> 
> Its possible that the problems are python bugs, but they
> seem cygwin specific.

Steve, try also the latest cygwin snapshot. At least in 1.5.14 was a bug
concerning path conversion posix <-> Windows, when a symlink was involved.
It manifests in at least in cygpath, but is fixed meanwhile and might also
have influence on your test cases.

- Jörg


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