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os.path.setmtime ?

Richard Wesley hawkfish at trustedmedianetworks.com
Mon Oct 13 15:38:12 EDT 2003 
In article <mailman.67.1066071133.2192.python-list at python.org>,
 Holger Krekel <pyth at devel.trillke.net> wrote:

> Richard Wesley wrote:
> > I am trying to set the mod date on a file (Linux) as part of a unit test 
> > run.  I can just wait one second, but that slows the test down.  A 
> > better solution would be to tweak the mod date on a file, but os.path 
> > does not seem to have setmtime.  
> > 
> > Is there any simple way to do this?
> 
> it is spelled
> 
>     os.utime

Thanks, that did the trick.  Saves me 2-3 seconds per test.

> 
> in python.  
> 
>     os.utime(path, None)
> 
> will set a/mtime to current time and
> 
>     os.utime (path, (-1, newtime))
> 
> will set mtime to newtime.  Note, however, that the effects and the
> actual time resolution of this call are very platform independant. 

I am making relative changes under Linux, so this is pretty well 
controlled.

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- rmgw

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