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# !/usr/bin/python
import os
src = '/usr/bin/python'
dst = '/tmp/python'
# This creates a symbolic link on python in tmp directory
os.symlink(src, dst)
# Now let us use readlink to display the source of the link.
path = os.readlink( dst )
print path
Let us compile and run the above program, this will create a symblic link to /usr/bin/python and later it will read the
source of the symbolic link using readlink() call. Before running this program, make sure you do not have
/tmp/python already available.
/usr/bin/python
os.remove(path)
Description
The method remove() removes the file path. If the path is a directory, OSError is raised.
Syntax
Following is the syntax for remove() method:
os.remove(path)
Parameters
• path -- This is the path, which is to be removed.
Return Value
This method does not return any value.
Example
The following example shows the usage of remove() method.
# !/usr/bin/python
import os, sys
# listing directories
print "The dir is: %s" %os.listdir(os.getcwd())
# removing
os.remove("aa.txt")
# listing directories after removing path
print "The dir after removal of path : %s" %os.listdir(os.getcwd())
Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result:
The dir is:
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