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Author r.david.murray
Recipients j13r, ncoghlan, r.david.murray
Date 2012-04-11.17:21:57
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The content of a symbolic symlink is a symbolic reference to another location in the file system.  If you had used a hard link it would certainly work as you expected.

The behavior with respect to symbolic links ought to be documented here:

  http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html

but doesn't seem to be.
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