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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] + |