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author | Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> | 2000-05-01 16:18:22 (GMT) |
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committer | Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> | 2000-05-01 16:18:22 (GMT) |
commit | 93a8eacde559ef3fd910f80f59208054ff99dab9 (patch) | |
tree | 75d9d6ee62dca7e3c8c06d94fa04db720b39c661 | |
parent | d58c26fec6a8e3e33b8337c5e002c28f6f26e42d (diff) | |
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Document the new additional signature for utime(). In addition to the
previous functionality utime(path, (atime, mtime)), now allowed is
utime(path, None) which sets the file's times to the current time.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex index 4001447..0fb8f10 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex @@ -702,9 +702,12 @@ Remove the file \var{path}. This is the same function as Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX{}, Windows. \end{funcdesc} -\begin{funcdesc}{utime}{path, (atime, mtime)} -Set the access and modified time of the file to the given values. -(The second argument is a tuple of two items.) +\begin{funcdesc}{utime}{path, times} +Set the access and modified times of the file specified by \var{path}. +If \var{times} is \code{None}, then the file's access and modified +times are set to the current time. Otherwise, \var{times} must be a +2-tuple of numbers, of the form \var{(atime, mtime)} which is used to +set the access and modified times, respectively. Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX{}, Windows. \end{funcdesc} |