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 app to be cross platform.
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Trying to create a Symlink in Windows I always got the error
A required privilege is not held by the client
However I was successfull when creating a shortcut with this code
import win32com.client
import pythoncom
import os
def create_shortcut(original_filepath, shortcut_filepath):
shell = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell")
shortcut = shell.CreateShortCut(shortcut_filepath)
shortcut.Targetpath = original_filepath
shortcut.WindowStyle = 7
shortcut.save()
create_shortcut(r'C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\test.jpg',
r'C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\test.lnk')
Note: make sure the shortcut ends with '.lnk'
As mentioned in another answer, using subprocess.call is likely the best option for windows. However calling 'mklink' directly may result in:
[WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
On Windows Server 2016, I was able to get the following to work for files:
import subprocess
subprocess.call(['cmd', '/c', 'mklink', '<path_for_symlink>', '<path_for_file>'])
Change the switches above as per mklink docs.
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