title: Python can't open symlinked file
body: <p>Python is unable to open my simlinked file. I made sure the file exists and I can access it. I was under the impression that symlinks are resolved on the OS level so Python would never know about it.</p>
  
  <pre><code>therold@therold:~/Programming/ML/deeptank/dataset/inc (master)$ ls -lisa  /Users/therold/Programming/ML/deeptank/dataset/inc/training/tanks/matilda-iv_689.png
  7870541 8 lrwxr-xr-x  1 therold  staff  46 13 Mai 16:44 /Users/therold/Programming/ML/deeptank/dataset/inc/training/tanks/matilda-iv_689.png -&gt; ../training_data/matilda-iv/matilda-iv_689.png
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>OSX is clearly able resolve the symlinked image file. However the Python <code>open()</code> method fails me:</p>
  
  <pre><code>therold@therold:~/Programming/ML/deeptank/dataset/inc (master)$ python
  Python 2.7.10 (default, Sep 23 2015, 04:34:21)
  [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.72)] on darwin
  &gt;&gt;&gt; open("/Users/therold/Programming/ML/deeptank/dataset/inc/training/tanks/matilda-iv_689.png")
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/therold/Programming/ML/deeptank/dataset/inc/training/tanks/matilda-iv_689.png'
  &gt;&gt;&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Help is much appreciated.</p>