"""distutils.dir_util Utility functions for manipulating directories and directory trees.""" # created 2000/04/03, Greg Ward (extracted from util.py) __revision__ = "$Id$" import os from types import * from distutils.errors import DistutilsFileError, DistutilsInternalError # cache for by mkpath() -- in addition to cheapening redundant calls, # eliminates redundant "creating /foo/bar/baz" messages in dry-run mode PATH_CREATED = {} # I don't use os.makedirs because a) it's new to Python 1.5.2, and # b) it blows up if the directory already exists (I want to silently # succeed in that case). def mkpath (name, mode=0777, verbose=0, dry_run=0): """Create a directory and any missing ancestor directories. If the directory already exists (or if 'name' is the empty string, which means the current directory, which of course exists), then do nothing. Raise DistutilsFileError if unable to create some directory along the way (eg. some sub-path exists, but is a file rather than a directory). If 'verbose' is true, print a one-line summary of each mkdir to stdout. Return the list of directories actually created.""" global PATH_CREATED # Detect a common bug -- name is None if type(name) is not StringType: raise DistutilsInternalError, \ "mkpath: 'name' must be a string (got %s)" % `name` # XXX what's the better way to handle verbosity? print as we create # each directory in the path (the current behaviour), or only announce # the creation of the whole path? (quite easy to do the latter since # we're not using a recursive algorithm) name = os.path.normpath (name) created_dirs = [] if os.path.isdir (name) or name == '': return created_dirs if PATH_CREATED.get (name): return created_dirs (head, tail) = os.path.split (name) tails = [tail] # stack of lone dirs to create while head and tail and not os.path.isdir (head): #print "splitting '%s': " % head, (head, tail) = os.path.split (head) #print "to ('%s','%s')" % (head, tail) tails.insert (0, tail) # push next higher dir onto stack #print "stack of tails:", tails # now 'head' contains the deepest directory that already exists # (that is, the child of 'head' in 'name' is the highest directory # that does *not* exist) for d in tails: #print "head = %s, d = %s: " % (head, d), head = os.path.join (head, d) if PATH_CREATED.get (head): continue if verbose: print "creating", head if not dry_run: try: os.mkdir (head) created_dirs.append(head) except OSError, exc: raise DistutilsFileError, \ "could not create '%s': %s" % (head, exc[-1]) PATH_CREATED[head] = 1 return created_dirs # mkpath () def create_tree (base_dir, files, mode=0777, verbose=0, dry_run=0): """Create all the empty directories under 'base_dir' needed to put 'files' there. 'base_dir' is just the a name of a directory which doesn't necessarily exist yet; 'files' is a list of filenames to be interpreted relative to 'base_dir'. 'base_dir' + the directory portion of every file in 'files' will be created if it doesn't already exist. 'mode', 'verbose' and 'dry_run' flags are as for 'mkpath()'.""" # First get the list of directories to create need_dir = {} for file in files: need_dir[os.path.join (base_dir, os.path.dirname (file))] = 1 need_dirs = need_dir.keys() need_dirs.sort() # Now create them for dir in need_dirs: mkpath (dir, mode, verbose, dry_run) # create_tree () def copy_tree (src, dst, preserve_mode=1, preserve_times=1, preserve_symlinks=0, update=0, verbose=0, dry_run=0): """Copy an entire directory tree 'src' to a new location 'dst'. Both 'src' and 'dst' must be directory names. If 'src' is not a directory, raise DistutilsFileError. If 'dst' does not exist, it is created with 'mkpath()'. The end result of the copy is that every file in 'src' is copied to 'dst', and directories under 'src' are recursively copied to 'dst'. Return the list of files that were copied or might have been copied, using their output name. The return value is unaffected by 'update' or 'dry_run': it is simply the list of all files under 'src', with the names changed to be under 'dst'. 'preserve_mode' and 'preserve_times' are the same as for 'copy_file'; note that they only apply to regular files, not to directories. If 'preserve_symlinks' is true, symlinks will be copied as symlinks (on platforms that support them!); otherwise (the default), the destination of the symlink will be copied. 'update' and 'verbose' are the same as for 'copy_file'.""" from distutils.file_util import copy_file if not dry_run and not os.path.isdir (src): raise DistutilsFileError, \ "cannot copy tree '%s': not a directory" % src try: names = os.listdir (src) except os.error, (errno, errstr): if dry_run: names = [] else: raise DistutilsFileError, \ "error listing files in '%s': %s" % (src, errstr) if not dry_run: mkpath (dst, verbose=verbose) outputs = [] for n in names: src_name = os.path.join (src, n) dst_name = os.path.join (dst, n) if preserve_symlinks and os.path.islink (src_name): link_dest = os.readlink (src_name) if verbose: print "linking %s -> %s" % (dst_name, link_dest) if not dry_run: os.symlink (link_dest, dst_name) outputs.append (dst_name) elif os.path.isdir (src_name): outputs.extend ( copy_tree (src_name, dst_name, preserve_mode, preserve_times, preserve_symlinks, update, verbose, dry_run)) else: copy_file (src_name, dst_name, preserve_mode, preserve_times, update, None, verbose, dry_run) outputs.append (dst_name) return outputs # copy_tree () def remove_tree (directory, verbose=0, dry_run=0): """Recursively remove an entire directory tree. Any errors are ignored (apart from being reported to stdout if 'verbose' is true).""" from shutil import rmtree if verbose: print "removing '%s' (and everything under it)" % directory if dry_run: return try: rmtree(directory,1) except (IOError, OSError), exc: if verbose: if exc.filename: print "error removing %s: %s (%s)" % \ (directory, exc.strerror, exc.filename) else: print "error removing %s: %s" % (directory, exc.strerror)