On Oct 13, 2:40 pm, oyster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> so, let alone the 'bad' os.utime, is there any way to set the time of
> directory in windows within official python release? can ctypes be
> helpful, and how ?
>
This appears to work:
import pywintypes
import win32file
import time
def set_dir_time(path, new_times=None):
if new_times is None:
t = time.localtime()
atime, mtime = t, t
else:
atime, mtime = time.localtime(new_times[0]),
time.localtime(new_times[1])
atime, mtime = pywintypes.Time(atime[0 : 6]),
pywintypes.Time(mtime[0 : 6])
handle = win32file.CreateFile(path, win32file.GENERIC_WRITE,
win32file.FILE_SHARE_READ | win32file.FILE_SHARE_WRITE, None,
win32file.OPEN_EXISTING, win32file.FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS, 0)
win32file.SetFileTime(handle, None, atime, mtime)
handle.Close()
> I am using totalcommander, which is programmer in delphi, but can set
> the time of a directory
>
> thanx
>
> 2008/10/12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > From: MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:29:12 -0700 (PDT)
> > Subject: Re: how to set the time of a directory?
> > On Oct 11, 1:18 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Oct 11, 1:27 am, "Timothy Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On Fri,
> > > Oct 10, 2008 at 10:16 PM, oyster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > os.utime works only against files. so what to do for a directory?
> > > > > thanx
>
> > > > Not sure why you'd say that.
>
> > > I am. He's running Windows.
>
> > > > drwxr-xr-x 2 tjg tjg 68 Oct 10 22:23 test
> > > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) python
> > > > Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 19:35:16)
> > > > [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
> > > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
> > > > information.>>> import os
> > > > >>> help(os.utime)
>
> > > > Help on built-in function utime in module posix:
>
> > > > utime(...)
> > > > utime(path, (atime, mtime))
> > > > utime(path, None)
>
> > > > Set the access and modified time of the file to the given values.
> > > > If the
> > > > second form is used, set the access and modified times to the
> > > > current time.
>
> > > > >>> os.utime('test', None)
> > > > >>> ^D
>
> > > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ls -ltr
> > > > drwxr-xr-x 2 tjg tjg 68 Oct 10 22:24 test
>
> > > > --
> > > > Stand Fast,
> > > > tjg. [Timothy Grant]
> > > >>> os.utime('WinDir', None)
>
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > File "(stdin)", line 1, in <module>
> > > WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: 'WinDir'
>
> > > I consider this a bug. (Note that os.utime works for directories under
> > > cygwin)
>
> > This in issue #214245 (2000-09-16). See also
> >http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2004-November/02612....
>
>
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