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+"""
+Path operations common to more than one OS
+Do not use directly.  The OS specific modules import the appropriate
+functions from this module themselves.
+"""
+import os
+import stat
+
+__all__ = ['commonprefix', 'exists', 'getatime', 'getctime', 'getmtime',
+           'getsize', 'isdir', 'isfile']
+
+
+# Does a path exist?
+# This is false for dangling symbolic links on systems that support them.
+def exists(path):
+    """Test whether a path exists.  Returns False for broken symbolic links"""
+    try:
+        st = os.stat(path)
+    except os.error:
+        return False
+    return True
+
+
+# This follows symbolic links, so both islink() and isdir() can be true
+# for the same path ono systems that support symlinks
+def isfile(path):
+    """Test whether a path is a regular file"""
+    try:
+        st = os.stat(path)
+    except os.error:
+        return False
+    return stat.S_ISREG(st.st_mode)
+
+
+# Is a path a directory?
+# This follows symbolic links, so both islink() and isdir()
+# can be true for the same path on systems that support symlinks
+def isdir(s):
+    """Return true if the pathname refers to an existing directory."""
+    try:
+        st = os.stat(s)
+    except os.error:
+        return False
+    return stat.S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)
+
+
+def getsize(filename):
+    """Return the size of a file, reported by os.stat()."""
+    return os.stat(filename).st_size
+
+
+def getmtime(filename):
+    """Return the last modification time of a file, reported by os.stat()."""
+    return os.stat(filename).st_mtime
+
+
+def getatime(filename):
+    """Return the last access time of a file, reported by os.stat()."""
+    return os.stat(filename).st_atime
+
+
+def getctime(filename):
+    """Return the metadata change time of a file, reported by os.stat()."""
+    return os.stat(filename).st_ctime
+
+
+# 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 ''
+    s1 = min(m)
+    s2 = max(m)
+    n = min(len(s1), len(s2))
+    for i in xrange(n):
+        if s1[i] != s2[i]:
+            return s1[:i]
+    return s1[:n]
+