cpython/Lib/dircache.py
Guido van Rossum 4b8c6eaf8b Actually, the previous batch's comment should have been different;
*this* set of patches is Ka-Ping's final sweep:

The attached patches update the standard library so that all modules
have docstrings beginning with one-line summaries.

A new docstring was added to formatter.  The docstring for os.py
was updated to mention nt, os2, ce in addition to posix, dos, mac.
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"""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
cache = {}
def listdir(path):
"""List directory contents, using cache."""
try:
cached_mtime, list = cache[path]
del cache[path]
except KeyError:
cached_mtime, list = -1, []
try:
mtime = os.stat(path)[8]
except os.error:
return []
if mtime <> cached_mtime:
try:
list = os.listdir(path)
except os.error:
return []
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] + '/'