# Module 'posixpath' -- common operations on Posix pathnames. # Some of this can actually be useful on non-Posix systems too, e.g. # for manipulation of the pathname component of URLs. # The "os.path" name is an alias for this module on Posix systems; # on other systems (e.g. Mac, Windows), os.path provides the same # operations in a manner specific to that platform, and is an alias # to another module (e.g. macpath, ntpath). """Common pathname manipulations, Posix version. Instead of importing this module directly, import os and refer to this module as os.path. """ import os 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): """Normalize case of pathname. Has no effect under Posix""" return s # Return wheter a path is absolute. # Trivial in Posix, harder on the Mac or MS-DOS. def isabs(s): """Test whether a path is absolute""" return s[:1] == '/' # Join pathnames. # Ignore the previous parts if a part is absolute. # Insert a '/' unless the first part is empty or already ends in '/'. def join(a, *p): """Join two or more pathname components, inserting '/' as needed""" path = a for b in p: if b[:1] == '/': path = b elif path == '' or path[-1:] == '/': path = path + b else: path = path + '/' + b return path # Split a path in head (everything up to the last '/') and tail (the # rest). If the path ends in '/', tail will be empty. If there is no # '/' in the path, head will be empty. # Trailing '/'es are stripped from head unless it is the root. def split(p): """Split a pathname. Returns tuple "(head, tail)" where "tail" is everything after the final slash. Either part may be empty""" import string i = string.rfind(p, '/') + 1 head, tail = p[:i], p[i:] if head and head <> '/'*len(head): while head[-1] == '/': head = head[:-1] return head, tail # Split a path in root and extension. # The extension is everything starting at the last dot in the last # pathname component; the root is everything before that. # It is always true that root + ext == p. def splitext(p): """Split the extension from a pathname. Extension is everything from the last dot to the end. Returns "(root, ext)", either part may be empty""" root, ext = '', '' for c in p: if c == '/': root, ext = root + ext + c, '' elif c == '.': if ext: root, ext = root + ext, c else: ext = c elif ext: ext = ext + c else: root = root + c return root, ext # Split a pathname into a drive specification and the rest of the # path. Useful on DOS/Windows/NT; on Unix, the drive is always empty. def splitdrive(p): """Split a pathname into drive and path. On Posix, drive is always empty""" return '', p # Return the tail (basename) part of a path. def basename(p): """Returns the final component of a pathname""" return split(p)[1] # Return the head (dirname) part of a path. def dirname(p): """Returns the directory component of a pathname""" return split(p)[0] # 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 '' 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 # Get size, mtime, atime of files. def getsize(filename): """Return the size of a file, reported by os.stat().""" st = os.stat(filename) return st[stat.ST_SIZE] def getmtime(filename): """Return the last modification time of a file, reported by os.stat().""" st = os.stat(filename) return st[stat.ST_MTIME] def getatime(filename): """Return the last access time of a file, reported by os.stat().""" st = os.stat(filename) return st[stat.ST_MTIME] # Is a path a symbolic link? # This will always return false on systems where os.lstat doesn't exist. def islink(path): """Test whether a path is a symbolic link""" try: st = os.lstat(path) except (os.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): """Test whether a path exists. Returns false for broken symbolic links""" try: st = os.stat(path) except os.error: return 0 return 1 # Is a path a directory? # This follows symbolic links, so both islink() and isdir() can be true # for the same path. def isdir(path): """Test whether a path is a directory""" try: st = os.stat(path) except os.error: return 0 return stat.S_ISDIR(st[stat.ST_MODE]) # Is a path a regular file? # This follows symbolic links, so both islink() and isfile() can be true # for the same path. def isfile(path): """Test whether a path is a regular file""" try: st = os.stat(path) except os.error: return 0 return stat.S_ISREG(st[stat.ST_MODE]) # Are two filenames really pointing to the same file? def samefile(f1, f2): """Test whether two pathnames reference the same actual file""" s1 = os.stat(f1) s2 = os.stat(f2) return samestat(s1, s2) # Are two open files really referencing the same file? # (Not necessarily the same file descriptor!) def sameopenfile(fp1, fp2): """Test whether two open file objects reference the same file""" s1 = os.fstat(fp1) s2 = os.fstat(fp2) return samestat(s1, s2) # Are two stat buffers (obtained from stat, fstat or lstat) # describing the same file? def samestat(s1, s2): """Test whether two stat buffers reference the same file""" return s1[stat.ST_INO] == s2[stat.ST_INO] and \ s1[stat.ST_DEV] == s2[stat.ST_DEV] # Is a path a mount point? # (Does this work for all UNIXes? Is it even guaranteed to work by Posix?) def ismount(path): """Test whether a path is a mount point""" try: s1 = os.stat(path) s2 = os.stat(join(path, '..')) except os.error: return 0 # It doesn't exist -- so not a mount point :-) dev1 = s1[stat.ST_DEV] dev2 = s2[stat.ST_DEV] if dev1 != dev2: return 1 # path/.. on a different device as path ino1 = s1[stat.ST_INO] ino2 = s2[stat.ST_INO] if ino1 == ino2: return 1 # path/.. is the same i-node as path return 0 # 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 # of 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): """walk(top,func,args) calls func(arg, d, files) for each directory "d" in the tree rooted at "top" (including "top" itself). "files" is a list of all the files and subdirs in directory "d". """ try: names = os.listdir(top) except os.error: return func(arg, top, names) exceptions = ('.', '..') for name in names: if name not in exceptions: name = join(top, name) if isdir(name) and not islink(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): """Expand ~ and ~user constructions. If user or $HOME is unknown, do nothing""" if path[:1] <> '~': return path i, n = 1, len(path) while i < n and path[i] <> '/': i = i+1 if i == 1: if not os.environ.has_key('HOME'): return path userhome = os.environ['HOME'] else: import pwd try: pwent = pwd.getpwnam(path[1:i]) except KeyError: return path userhome = pwent[5] if userhome[-1:] == '/': i = i+1 return userhome + path[i:] # Expand paths containing shell variable substitutions. # This expands the forms $variable and ${variable} only. # Non-existant variables are left unchanged. _varprog = None def expandvars(path): """Expand shell variables of form $var and ${var}. Unknown variables are left unchanged""" global _varprog if '$' not in path: return path if not _varprog: import re _varprog = re.compile(r'\$(\w+|\{[^}]*\})') i = 0 while 1: m = _varprog.search(path, i) if not m: break i, j = m.span(0) name = m.group(1) if name[:1] == '{' and name[-1:] == '}': name = name[1:-1] if os.environ.has_key(name): tail = path[j:] path = path[:i] + os.environ[name] i = len(path) path = path + tail else: i = j return path # Normalize a path, e.g. A//B, A/./B and A/foo/../B all become A/B. # It should be understood that this may change the meaning of the path # if it contains symbolic links! def normpath(path): """Normalize path, eliminating double slashes, etc.""" import string # Treat initial slashes specially slashes = '' while path[:1] == '/': slashes = slashes + '/' path = path[1:] comps = string.splitfields(path, '/') i = 0 while i < len(comps): if comps[i] == '.': del comps[i] while i < len(comps) and comps[i] == '': del comps[i] elif comps[i] == '..' and i > 0 and comps[i-1] not in ('', '..'): del comps[i-1:i+1] i = i-1 elif comps[i] == '' and i > 0 and comps[i-1] <> '': del comps[i] else: i = i+1 # If the path is now empty, substitute '.' if not comps and not slashes: comps.append('.') return slashes + string.joinfields(comps, '/') # Return an absolute path. def abspath(path): if not isabs(path): path = join(os.getcwd(), path) return normpath(path)