Symlinks on windows?

Question

Does anyone know of a way to make/read symbolic links across versions of win32 from Python? Ideally there should be a minimum amount of platform specific code, as I need my

Answer 1

here is the link containing all methods of kernel32.dll

http://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/win32/kernel32/api/

I used CreateHardLinkA on Windows xp sp3, it worked!

import ctypes if os.path.exists(link_file): os.remove(link_file)

dll = ctypes.windll.LoadLibrary("kernel32.dll")
dll.CreateHardLinkA(link_file, _log_filename, 0)