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54 | 10.10 <tt class="module">distutils.dep_util</tt> -- Dependency checking</A> | |
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56 | <A NAME="module-distutils.deputil"></A> | |
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59 | This module provides functions for performing simple, timestamp-based | |
60 | dependency of files and groups of files; also, functions based entirely | |
61 | on such timestamp dependency analysis. | |
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64 | <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> | |
65 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-66' xml:id='l2h-66' class="function">newer</tt></b>(</nobr></td> | |
66 | <td><var>source, target</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> | |
67 | <dd> | |
68 | Return true if <var>source</var> exists and is more recently modified than | |
69 | <var>target</var>, or if <var>source</var> exists and <var>target</var> doesn't. | |
70 | Return false if both exist and <var>target</var> is the same age or newer | |
71 | than <var>source</var>. | |
72 | Raise <tt class="exception">DistutilsFileError</tt> if <var>source</var> does not exist. | |
73 | </dl> | |
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77 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-67' xml:id='l2h-67' class="function">newer_pairwise</tt></b>(</nobr></td> | |
78 | <td><var>sources, targets</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> | |
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80 | Walk two filename lists in parallel, testing if each source is newer | |
81 | than its corresponding target. Return a pair of lists (<var>sources</var>, | |
82 | <var>targets</var>) where source is newer than target, according to the semantics | |
83 | of <tt class="function">newer()</tt> | |
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89 | <td><var>sources, target</var><big>[</big><var>, missing=<code>'error'</code></var><big>]</big><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> | |
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91 | Return true if <var>target</var> is out-of-date with respect to any file | |
92 | listed in <var>sources</var> In other words, if <var>target</var> exists and is newer | |
93 | than every file in <var>sources</var>, return false; otherwise return true. | |
94 | <var>missing</var> controls what we do when a source file is missing; the | |
95 | default (<code>'error'</code>) is to blow up with an <tt class="exception">OSError</tt> from | |
96 | inside <tt class="function">os.stat()</tt>; | |
97 | if it is <code>'ignore'</code>, we silently drop any missing source files; if it is | |
98 | <code>'newer'</code>, any missing source files make us assume that <var>target</var> is | |
99 | out-of-date (this is handy in ``dry-run'' mode: it'll make you pretend to | |
100 | carry out commands that wouldn't work because inputs are missing, but | |
101 | that doesn't matter because you're not actually going to run the | |
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