[Pythonmac-SIG] folder aliases

[Just van Rossum]

Jakob Spies wrote:

> Let x be anything that can be contained in a folder, e.g. gotten by calling
> os.listdir(). Is there a recommended way (on Mac OS X _and_ Classic Mac OS)
> of determining whether x is an alias? The difficult case is when isdir(x) is
> true. The function I arrived at is attached below and does not look very
> convincing:

I think you should use macfs.ResolveAliasFile().

Just