i18n: encode output in user's local encoding This makes the translated output obey the HGENCODING environment variable or the preferred encoding as set by the LANG or LC_ALL environment variables. Python 2.4 has a lgettext method which is similar, except that it doesn't know about HGENCODING or the settings in .hgrc.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import errno, os, sys

for f in sys.argv[1:]:
    try:
        print f, '->', os.readlink(f)
    except OSError, err:
        if err.errno != errno.EINVAL: raise
        print f, 'not a symlink'

sys.exit(0)