Symlinks on windows?
NTFS file system has junction points, I think you may use them instead, You can use python win32 API module for that e.g.
import win32file
win32file.CreateSymbolicLink(fileSrc, fileTarget, 1)
If you do not want to rely on win32API module, you can always use ctypes
and directly call CreateSymbolicLink
win32 API e.g.
import ctypes
kdll = ctypes.windll.LoadLibrary("kernel32.dll")
kdll.CreateSymbolicLinkA("d:\\test.txt", "d:\\test_link.txt", 0)
MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363866(VS.85).aspx) says Minimum supported client is Windows Vista
In addition: This also works with directories (indicate that with the third argument). With unicode support it looks like this:
kdll.CreateSymbolicLinkW(UR"D:\testdirLink", UR"D:\testdir", 1)
also see Create NTFS junction point in Python
os.symlink works on Python 3.3 using Windows 8.1 with an NTFS filesystem.