linecache.py

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"""Cache lines from files.

This is intended to read lines from modules imported -- hence if a filename
is not found, it will look down the module search path for a file by
that name.
"""

import sys
import os
from stat import *

__all__ = ["getline","clearcache","checkcache"]

def getline(filename, lineno):
    lines = getlines(filename)
    if 1 <= lineno <= len(lines):
        return lines[lineno-1]
    else:
        return ''


# The cache

cache = {} # The cache


def clearcache():
    """Clear the cache entirely."""

    global cache
    cache = {}


def getlines(filename):
    """Get the lines for a file from the cache.
    Update the cache if it doesn't contain an entry for this file already."""

    if cache.has_key(filename):
        return cache[filename][2]
    else:
        return updatecache(filename)


def checkcache():
    """Discard cache entries that are out of date.
    (This is not checked upon each call!)"""

    for filename in cache.keys():
        size, mtime, lines, fullname = cache[filename]
        try:
            stat = os.stat(fullname)
        except os.error:
            del cache[filename]
            continue
        if size != stat[ST_SIZE] or mtime != stat[ST_MTIME]:
            del cache[filename]


def updatecache(filename):
    """Update a cache entry and return its list of lines.
    If something's wrong, print a message, discard the cache entry,
    and return an empty list."""

    if cache.has_key(filename):
        del cache[filename]
    if not filename or filename[0] + filename[-1] == '<>':
        return []
    fullname = filename
    try:
        stat = os.stat(fullname)
    except os.error, msg:
        # Try looking through the module search path.
        basename = os.path.split(filename)[1]
        for dirname in sys.path:
            # When using imputil, sys.path may contain things other than
            # strings; ignore them when it happens.
            try:
                fullname = os.path.join(dirname, basename)
            except (TypeError, AttributeError):
                # Not sufficiently string-like to do anything useful with.
                pass
            else:
                try:
                    stat = os.stat(fullname)
                    break
                except os.error:
                    pass
        else:
            # No luck
##          print '*** Cannot stat', filename, ':', msg
            return []
    try:
        fp = open(fullname, 'r')
        lines = fp.readlines()
        fp.close()
    except IOError, msg:
##      print '*** Cannot open', fullname, ':', msg
        return []
    size, mtime = stat[ST_SIZE], stat[ST_MTIME]
    cache[filename] = size, mtime, lines, fullname
    return lines