$ ls -l /usr/lib/xulrunner/libfreebl3.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2007-10-20 12:13 /usr/lib/xulrunner/libfreebl3.so -> ../nss/libfreebl3.so
$ python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 5 2007, 13:36:32) [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os.path >>> os.path.isfile("/usr/lib/xulrunner/libfreebl3.so") True >>> print os.path.isfile.__doc__ Test whether a path is a regular file Is this because isfile follows symlinks? If that is the case, how can I NOT make it do that? - Sandip _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor