Added 'write_file()' function.
Added global cache PATH_CREATED used by 'mkpath()' to ensure it doesn't
try to create the same path more than once in a session (and, more
importantly, to ensure that it doesn't print "creating X" more than
once for each X per session!).
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index bb790af..85b04e7 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
from distutils.errors import *
+# 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).
@@ -26,12 +30,17 @@
directory). If 'verbose' is true, print a one-line summary of
each mkdir to stdout."""
+ global PATH_CREATED
+
# 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, and force verbose=0 on all sub-calls?
+ # the creation of the whole path? (quite easy to do the latter since
+ # we're not using a recursive algorithm)
if os.path.isdir (name):
return
+ if PATH_CREATED.get (name):
+ return
(head, tail) = os.path.split (name)
tails = [tail] # stack of lone dirs to create
@@ -59,6 +68,8 @@
except os.error, (errno, errstr):
raise DistutilsFileError, "%s: %s" % (head, errstr)
+ PATH_CREATED[head] = 1
+
# mkpath ()
@@ -394,3 +405,13 @@
return dst
# move_file ()
+
+
+def write_file (filename, contents):
+ """Create a file with the specified naem and write 'contents' (a
+ sequence of strings without line terminators) to it."""
+
+ f = open (filename, "w")
+ for line in contents:
+ f.write (line + "\n")
+ f.close ()