>> macpath.walk() (or actually os.path.walk) is 
explicitly define *not* to
>> do special things for symlinks or aliases. But 
still: the functionality
>> is nice, so maybe we should put it in a new 
function macostools.walk.
>
> By "special things" you don't mean that walk() is 
suppose to skip over
> aliases, do you?

Yes, that's what I mean. Do I understand from your 
comment that it walks 
aliases? That would be a bug, please file it at 
sourceforge.


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I am just filing the above correspondence as a 
reminder that walk() in macpath walks aliases.

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Fixed in macpath.py 1.36, which also includes your islink() fix and an equivalent of your resolve() function. The last as realpath(), which is an API alias available in posixpath and others.