How to check if file is a symlink in Python?
operating-system, python
Solution
To determine if a directory entry is a symlink use this:
os.path.islink(path)
Return True if path refers to a directory entry that is a symbolic link. Always False if symbolic links are not supported.
For instance, given:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-11-10 08:14 bin/
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 57 2011-07-10 05:11 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-2..
>>> import os.path
>>> os.path.islink('initrd.img')
True
>>> os.path.islink('bin')
False
Problem
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`. ``` # ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2012-06-16 18:58 dir -> ../temp/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2012-06-16 18:55 link -> ../log ```