On 2005-09-12, Oren Tirosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whenever a file is modified the last modification time of the directory > containing it is also set.
Nope. $ ls -ld --time-style=full-iso . drwxr-xr-x 2 grante grante 4096 2005-09-12 12:38:04.749815352 -0500 ./ $ touch asdf $ ls -ld --time-style=full-iso . drwxr-xr-x 2 grante grante 4096 2005-09-12 12:39:35.657995208 -0500 ./ $ echo "hi" >asdf $ ls -ld --time-style=full-iso . drwxr-xr-x 2 grante grante 4096 2005-09-12 12:39:35.657995208 -0500 ./ $ echo "foo" >asdf $ ls -ld --time-style=full-iso . drwxr-xr-x 2 grante grante 4096 2005-09-12 12:39:35.657995208 -0500 ./ Notice that writing to the file did not change the modification date of the directory contining it. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! - if it GLISTENS, at gobble it!! visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list