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Mystery Man
Mystery Man

Reputation: 1

Creating a Link to a Windows Folder

I am working on organizing a folder on my Windows computer. I want to write some Python code to create links inside a new folder which will allow the user to click the created links and it will take the user to the original folder.

So, for example, say this is Folder 1: asparagus bananas carrots oranges pineapples

and this is the new folder which I want to create links to Folder 1: fruits vegetables

Is this doable in Python?

I have been looking into detail about using the recursion function in Python.

Also, the folders I displayed above are extremely simple. My actual folders are full of files and additional files so keep that in mind. This is why I think recursion might be the way to go.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 614

Answers (1)

godot
godot

Reputation: 3545

you can use symlink:

os.symlink(src, dst)

Here is an example from this link:

import os

src = '/usr/bin/python'
dst = '/tmp/python'

# This creates a symbolic link on python in tmp directory
os.symlink(src, dst)

print "symlink created"

Example:

Assume you have folder D:/Folder1 where is folder D:/Folder1/oranges and if you want to create symlink of this folder in D:/Fruits you should do that:

import os
os.symlink('D:/Folder1/oranges', 'D:/Fruits/oranges')

Upvotes: 1

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