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| author | Jack Diederich <jackdied@gmail.com> | 2006-08-26 18:42:06 (GMT) | 
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| committer | Jack Diederich <jackdied@gmail.com> | 2006-08-26 18:42:06 (GMT) | 
| commit | 7b60464ceb845c3117e9524b17f30443423c3b9d (patch) | |
| tree | 7c222c22f1ca0f1a466bf1271172f90716cf789a /Lib/genericpath.py | |
| parent | 4582d7d905ae4299dd2ff981bfbab5980c9ddb79 (diff) | |
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- Move functions common to all path modules into genericpath.py and have the
  OS speicifc path modules import them.
- Have os2emxpath import common functions fron ntpath instead of using copies
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diff --git a/Lib/genericpath.py b/Lib/genericpath.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..124bdca --- /dev/null +++ b/Lib/genericpath.py @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +""" +Path operations common to more than one OS +Do not use directly.  The OS specific modules import the appropriate +functions from this module themselves. +""" +import os +import stat + +__all__ = ['commonprefix', 'exists', 'getatime', 'getctime', 'getmtime', +           'getsize', 'isdir', 'isfile'] + + +# Does a path exist? +# This is false for dangling symbolic links on systems that support them. +def exists(path): +    """Test whether a path exists.  Returns False for broken symbolic links""" +    try: +        st = os.stat(path) +    except os.error: +        return False +    return True + + +# This follows symbolic links, so both islink() and isdir() can be true +# for the same path ono systems that support symlinks +def isfile(path): +    """Test whether a path is a regular file""" +    try: +        st = os.stat(path) +    except os.error: +        return False +    return stat.S_ISREG(st.st_mode) + + +# Is a path a directory? +# This follows symbolic links, so both islink() and isdir() +# can be true for the same path on systems that support symlinks +def isdir(s): +    """Return true if the pathname refers to an existing directory.""" +    try: +        st = os.stat(s) +    except os.error: +        return False +    return stat.S_ISDIR(st.st_mode) + + +def getsize(filename): +    """Return the size of a file, reported by os.stat().""" +    return os.stat(filename).st_size + + +def getmtime(filename): +    """Return the last modification time of a file, reported by os.stat().""" +    return os.stat(filename).st_mtime + + +def getatime(filename): +    """Return the last access time of a file, reported by os.stat().""" +    return os.stat(filename).st_atime + + +def getctime(filename): +    """Return the metadata change time of a file, reported by os.stat().""" +    return os.stat(filename).st_ctime + + +# Return the longest prefix of all list elements. +def commonprefix(m): +    "Given a list of pathnames, returns the longest common leading component" +    if not m: return '' +    s1 = min(m) +    s2 = max(m) +    n = min(len(s1), len(s2)) +    for i in xrange(n): +        if s1[i] != s2[i]: +            return s1[:i] +    return s1[:n] +  | 
