Your Python codes store and resident in many places on your computer. Is this a bit messed up to remember which Python directory you are looking for, isn’t it? On a Linux environment, you can organise your Python-based codes into a single place where it contains the shortcuts to help you move quickly to the directory in question. How to do so on Windows? Let’s have a look some ways in this post.
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What are the symbolic links?
Symbolic links are basically advanced shortcuts in which they allow us to create a link under any name to an individual file or directory and that link appears on the destination though the original linked data is on the different place. It looks we are on the place where the link is accommodated but the actual data is persisted on the original place of the link.
How to create symbolic links with the mklink command
To create symbolic links, you have to run the mklinkcommand in a Command Prompt window as Administrator.
How to create symbolic links with Mouse and Windows Explorer
References
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/