Find broken symlinks with Python

Question

If I call os.stat() on a broken symlink, python throws an OSError exception. This makes it useful for finding them. However, there are

Answer 1

I used this variant, When symlink is broken it will return false for the path.exists and true for path.islink, so combining this two facts we may use the following:

def kek(argum):
    if path.exists("/root/" + argum) == False and path.islink("/root/" + argum) == True:
        print("The path is a broken link, location: " + os.readlink("/root/" + argum))
    else:
        return "No broken links fond"