python: real path after symbolic link

After calling a library method that renamed a file and linked it, I needed the name it renamed it to.

  filename=os.path.basename(os.path.realpath(symbolicLinkName))

 More at http://www.python.org/doc//current/library/os.path.html

python: link to webpage on how to use List type

An Introduction to Python Lists by Fredrik Lundh | August 2006

Very useful summary.