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  • Committer: Vincent Ladeuil
  • Date: 2009-04-16 16:57:28 UTC
  • mto: (4331.1.1 integration)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 4332.
  • Revision ID: v.ladeuil+lp@free.fr-20090416165728-lnobbei6iew38g2d
Test and implements osutils.readlink().

* bzrlib/tests/test_osutils.py:
(TestDirReader.test_symlink): Fix typo.
(TestReadLink): Explain the need for osutils.readlink().

* bzrlib/osutils.py:
(readlink): Reliable version handling unicode paths only.

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            and sys.platform not in ('cygwin', 'win32'))
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def readlink(abspath):
 
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    """Return a string representing the path to which the symbolic link points.
 
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    :param abspath: The link absolute unicode path.
 
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    This his guaranteed to return the symbolic link in unicode in all python
 
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    versions.
 
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    """
 
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    link = abspath.encode(_fs_enc)
 
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    target = os.readlink(link)
 
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    target = target.decode(_fs_enc)
 
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    return target
 
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def contains_whitespace(s):
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    """True if there are any whitespace characters in s."""
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    # string.whitespace can include '\xa0' in certain locales, because it is