# Module 'posixpath' -- 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 (everything up to the last '/') and tail (the # rest). If the original path ends in '/' but is not the root, this # '/' is stripped. After the trailing '/' is stripped, the invariant # join(head, tail) == p holds. # The resulting head won't end in '/' unless it is the root. def split(p): if p[-1:] == '/' and p <> '/'*len(p): while p[-1] == '/': p = p[:-1] head, tail = '', '' for c in p: tail = tail + c if c == '/': head, tail = head + tail, '' if head[-1:] == '/' 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 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 head (dirname) part of a path. def dirname(p): return split(p)[0] # 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 regular 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.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): try: s1 = posix.stat(path) s2 = posix.stat(join(path, '..')) except posix.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 # 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 $HOME is unknown, # the path is returned unchanged (leaving error reporting to whatever # function is called with the expanded path as argument). # See also module 'glob' for expansion of *, ? and [...] in pathnames. # (A function should also be defined to do full *sh-style environment # variable expansion.) def expanduser(path): if path[:1] <> '~': return path i, n = 1, len(path) while i < n and path[i] <> '/': i = i+1 if i == 1: if not posix.environ.has_key('HOME'): return path userhome = posix.environ['HOME'] else: import pwd try: pwent = pwd.getpwnam(path[1:i]) except KeyError: return path userhome = pwent[5] return userhome + path[i:] # Expand paths containing shell variable substitutions. # This is done by piping it through the shell. # Shell quoting characters (\ " ' `) are protected by a backslash. # NB: a future version may avoid starting a subprocess and do the # substitutions internally. This may slightly change the syntax # for variables. def expandvars(path): if '$' not in path: return path q = '' for c in path: if c in ('\\', '"', '\'', '`'): c = '\\' + c q = q + c d = '!' if q == d: d = '+' p = posix.popen('cat <<' + d + '\n' + q + '\n' + d + '\n', 'r') res = p.read() del p if res[-1:] == '\n': res = res[:-1] return res # 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): 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] 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, '/')