Function islink

Lib/genericpath.py:60–66

Test whether a path is a symbolic link

(path)

# This will always return false on systems where os.lstat doesn't exist.

def islink(path):
    """Test whether a path is a symbolic link"""
    try:
        st = os.lstat(path)
    except (OSError, ValueError, AttributeError):
        return False
    return stat.S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)


# Is a path a junction?