Check if file is symlink in python

Question

In python, is there a function to check if a given file/directory is a symlink ? For example, for the below files, my wrapper function should return True.

Answer 1

Without the intention to bloat this topic, but I was redirected to this page as I was looking for symlink's to find them and convert them to real files and found this script within the python tools library.

#Source https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Tools/scripts/mkreal.py


import sys
import os
from stat import *

BUFSIZE = 32*1024

def mkrealfile(name):
    st = os.stat(name) # Get the mode
    mode = S_IMODE(st[ST_MODE])
    linkto = os.readlink(name) # Make sure again it's a symlink
    f_in = open(name, 'r') # This ensures it's a file
    os.unlink(name)
    f_out = open(name, 'w')
    while 1:
        buf = f_in.read(BUFSIZE)
        if not buf: break
        f_out.write(buf)
    del f_out # Flush data to disk before changing mode
    os.chmod(name, mode)

    mkrealfile("/Users/test/mysymlink")