# Module 'path' -- common operations on POSIX pathnames import posix import stat # Normalize the case of a pathname. Trivial in Posix, string.lower on Mac. # On MS-DOS this may also turn slashes into backslashes; however, other # normalizations (such as optimizing '../' away) are not allowed # (another function should be defined to do that). def normcase(s): return s # Return wheter a path is absolute. # Trivial in Posix, harder on the Mac or MS-DOS. def isabs(s): return s[:1] == '/' # Join two pathnames. # Ignore the first part if the second part is absolute. # Insert a '/' unless the first part is empty or already ends in '/'. def join(a, b): if b[:1] == '/': return b if a == '' or a[-1:] == '/': return a + b # Note: join('x', '') returns 'x/'; is this what we want? return a + '/' + b # Split a path in head (empty or ending in '/') and tail (no '/'). # The tail will be empty if the path ends in '/'. # It is always true that head + tail == p; also join(head, tail) == p. # Note that because head ends in '/', if you want to find all components # of a path by repeatedly getting the head, you will have to strip off # the trailing '/' yourself (another function should be defined to # split an entire path into components.) def split(p): head, tail = '', '' for c in p: tail = tail + c if c == '/': head, tail = head + tail, '' return head, tail # Split a path in root and extension. # The extension is everything starting at the first dot in the last # pathname component; the root is everything before that. # It is always true that root + ext == p. def splitext(p): root, ext = '', '' for c in p: if c == '/': root, ext = root + ext + c, '' elif c == '.' or ext: ext = ext + c else: root = root + c return root, ext # Return the tail (basename) part of a path. def basename(p): return split(p)[1] # Return the longest prefix of all list elements. def commonprefix(m): if not m: return '' prefix = m[0] for item in m: for i in range(len(prefix)): if prefix[:i+1] <> item[:i+1]: prefix = prefix[:i] if i == 0: return '' break return prefix # Is a path a symbolic link? # This will always return false on systems where posix.lstat doesn't exist. def islink(path): try: st = posix.lstat(path) except (posix.error, AttributeError): return 0 return stat.S_ISLNK(st[stat.ST_MODE]) # Does a path exist? # This is false for dangling symbolic links. def exists(path): try: st = posix.stat(path) except posix.error: return 0 return 1 # Is a path a posix directory? # This follows symbolic links, so both islink() and isdir() can be true # for the same path. def isdir(path): try: st = posix.stat(path) except posix.error: return 0 return stat.S_ISDIR(st[stat.ST_MODE]) # Is a path a regulat file? # This follows symbolic links, so both islink() and isdir() can be true # for the same path. def isfile(path): try: st = posix.stat(path) except posix.error: return 0 return stat.S_ISREG(st[stat.ST_MODE]) # Are two filenames really pointing to the same file? def samefile(f1, f2): s1 = posix.stat(f1) s2 = posix.stat(f2) return samestat(s1, s2) # Are two open files really referencing the same file? # (Not necessarily the same file descriptor!) # XXX Oops, posix.fstat() doesn't exist yet! def sameopenfile(fp1, fp2): s1 = posix.fstat(fp1) s2 = posix.fstat(fp2) return samestat(s1, s2) # Are two stat buffers (obtained from stat, fstat or lstat) # describing the same file? def samestat(s1, s2): return s1[stat.ST_INO] == s2[stat.ST_INO] and \ s1[stat.ST_DEV] == s2[stat.STD_DEV] # Subroutine and global data used by ismount(). _mounts = [] def _getmounts(): import commands, string mounts = [] data = commands.getoutput('/etc/mount') lines = string.splitfields(data, '\n') for line in lines: words = string.split(line) if len(words) >= 3 and words[1] == 'on': mounts.append(words[2]) return mounts # Is a path a mount point? # This only works for normalized paths, # and only if the mount table as printed by /etc/mount is correct. # It tries to make relative paths absolute by prefixing them with the # current directory, but it won't normalize arguments containing '../' # or symbolic links. def ismount(path): if not isabs(path): path = join(posix.getcwd(), path) if not _mounts: _mounts[:] = _getmounts() return path in _mounts # Directory tree walk. # For each directory under top (including top itself, but excluding # '.' and '..'), func(arg, dirname, filenames) is called, where # dirname is the name of the directory and filenames is the list # files files (and subdirectories etc.) in the directory. # The func may modify the filenames list, to implement a filter, # or to impose a different order of visiting. def walk(top, func, arg): try: names = posix.listdir(top) except posix.error: return func(arg, top, names) exceptions = ('.', '..') for name in names: if name not in exceptions: name = join(top, name) if isdir(name): walk(name, func, arg) # Expand paths beginning with '~' or '~user'. # '~' means $HOME; '~user' means that user's home directory. # If the path doesn't begin with '~', or if the user or $HOME is unknown, # the path is returned unchanged (leaving error reporting to whatever # function is called with the expanded path as argument). # See also module 'glob' for expansion of *, ? and [...] in pathnames. # (A function should also be defined to do full *sh-style environment # variable expansion.) def expanduser(path): if path[:1] <> '~': return path i, n = 1, len(path) while i < n and path[i] <> '/': i = i+1 if i == 1: if not posix.environ.has_key('HOME'): return path userhome = posix.environ['HOME'] else: import pwd try: pwent = pwd.getpwnam(path[1:i]) except KeyError: return path userhome = pwent[5] return userhome + path[i:]