Traversing multiple symbolic links recursively in Python

Question

I want to write a recursive function to traverse symbolic links from source path to destination path

Example: 1)readlink patha/pathb/pathc -> gives if symbolic link exists 2)readlink patha/pathb/pathc/ -> gives if symbolic link exists

I'm using os.readlink method in python to get symbolic link in Python but how to traverse multiple symbolic links

Reason for traverse: If its in future someone wants to add file3 symbolic link in between , then I wanted a recursive function to traverse each symbolic links and gives the final dest path
file1 -> file2 -> .... -> for getting destination path

Ya this solution worked out and solved me the problem of traversing symbolic links from any path recursively.Thanks — Somu, Jun 10 '21 at 15:36

Epic Chen · Accepted Answer · 2021-06-10T07:33:44.433

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You could simply use

import os

def find_link(path):
   try:
        link = os.readlink(path)
        return find_link(link)
   except OSError: # if the last is not symbolic file will throw OSError
        return path

print(find_link("a/b/c"))

edited Jun 10 '21 at 07:33

answered Jun 10 '21 at 07:09

Epic Chen

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Ya this solution worked out and solved me the problem of traversing symbolic links from any path recursively.Thanks – Somu Jun 10 '21 at 15:37
@Somu You could mark this to be the answer, that will help others who have the same question in the future. – Epic Chen Jun 11 '21 at 06:40
@ Epic Chen Yes I marked this as answer .Thanks – Somu Jun 11 '21 at 07:19
Glad to be of help. – Epic Chen Jun 11 '21 at 08:11

Traversing multiple symbolic links recursively in Python

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