tests/readlink.py

py3: convert arbitrary exception object to byte string more reliably

Our exception types implement __bytes__(), which should be tried first. Do
lossy encoding conversion as a last resort.

#!/usr/bin/env python

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function

import errno
import os
import sys

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

sys.exit(0)