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
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"))