I've been trying to figure out a way to get some sort of ability to be able to return the true abspath of a symbolic link in Windows, under Python 2.7. (I cannot upgrade to 3.x, as most DCCs such as Maya/3ds max do not use that version of Python)
I've looked at the sid0 ntfs utils (whose islink() function works, but readlink() function always returns an empty unicode string for me for some reason), and the juntalis ntfs libs …