ref: 2aba7615afdabfdef8e02d162ffee2ecdf3e39e9
dir: /sys/lib/python/dircache.py/
"""Read and cache directory listings.
The listdir() routine returns a sorted list of the files in a directory,
using a cache to avoid reading the directory more often than necessary.
The annotate() routine appends slashes to directories."""
import os
__all__ = ["listdir", "opendir", "annotate", "reset"]
cache = {}
def reset():
"""Reset the cache completely."""
global cache
cache = {}
def listdir(path):
"""List directory contents, using cache."""
try:
cached_mtime, list = cache[path]
del cache[path]
except KeyError:
cached_mtime, list = -1, []
mtime = os.stat(path).st_mtime
if mtime != cached_mtime:
list = os.listdir(path)
list.sort()
cache[path] = mtime, list
return list
opendir = listdir # XXX backward compatibility
def annotate(head, list):
"""Add '/' suffixes to directories."""
for i in range(len(list)):
if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(head, list[i])):
list[i] = list[i] + '/'