Create symlinks for python modules installed in /usr/share/pyshared in /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/

pymodules.py

import os

def touch(fname, times=None):
    with file(fname, 'a'):
        os.utime(fname, times)

def create_pyshare_symlinks(package):
    base_subdir = '/'.join(package.split('.'))
    base_from = '/usr/share/pyshared/' + base_subdir
    base_to = '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/' + base_subdir
    if not os.path.exists(base_to):
        os.makedirs(base_to)

    for dirname, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(base_from):
        basedir_to = os.path.join(base_to, dirname[len(base_from)+1:])
        if not os.path.exists(basedir_to):
            os.makedirs(basedir_to)

        for filename in filenames:
            file_from = os.path.join(dirname, filename)
            file_to = os.path.join(basedir_to, filename)
            try:
                os.symlink(file_from, file_to)
            except OSError:
                print "Failed ln -s %s %s" % (file_from, file_to)
        if '__init__.py' not in filenames:
            touch(os.path.join(basedir_to, '__init__.py'))