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LaoDa581
LaoDa581

Reputation: 613

How to get the real path of shortcut

I used os.listdir(path) to get the folder under specific path and found there is a shorcut inside. How to get the real path of shortcut?

Input:
    os.listdir('/tmp/logs')

Output:
    Linux:
        ['12-31-2020_16-59-01-391', 'latest']
    Windows:
        ['12-31-2020_16-59-01-391', 'latest.lnk']

Update:

A shortcut is added via the following picture so the real path of shortcut should be another path rather than /tmp/logs/latest.lnk, something like C:\Users\username\Downloads\Temp\logs.

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 2822

Answers (1)

atline
atline

Reputation: 31644

For linux, we can just use os.path.realpath to get the target of symbol link.

But for windows, looks windows shortcut different with linux symbol link, you have to make workaround using pywin32, utilize shell.CreateShortCut(item).Targetpath.

A minimal example as next.

test.py:

import platform
import os

system = platform.system()

if system == "Linux":
    print([os.path.realpath(item) for item in os.listdir('.')])
elif system == "Windows":
    import win32com.client
    shell = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell")
    print([shell.CreateShortCut(item).Targetpath if item.endswith("lnk") else item for item in os.listdir('.')])
else:
    print('Unknown os.')

Upvotes: 3

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