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authorBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>2000-05-01 16:18:22 +0000
committerBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>2000-05-01 16:18:22 +0000
commit93a8eacde559ef3fd910f80f59208054ff99dab9 (patch)
tree75d9d6ee62dca7e3c8c06d94fa04db720b39c661
parentd58c26fec6a8e3e33b8337c5e002c28f6f26e42d (diff)
downloadcpython-git-93a8eacde559ef3fd910f80f59208054ff99dab9.tar.gz
Document the new additional signature for utime(). In addition to the
previous functionality utime(path, (atime, mtime)), now allowed is utime(path, None) which sets the file's times to the current time.
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@@ -702,9 +702,12 @@ Remove the file \var{path}. This is the same function as
Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX{}, Windows.
\end{funcdesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{utime}{path, (atime, mtime)}
-Set the access and modified time of the file to the given values.
-(The second argument is a tuple of two items.)
+\begin{funcdesc}{utime}{path, times}
+Set the access and modified times of the file specified by \var{path}.
+If \var{times} is \code{None}, then the file's access and modified
+times are set to the current time. Otherwise, \var{times} must be a
+2-tuple of numbers, of the form \var{(atime, mtime)} which is used to
+set the access and modified times, respectively.
Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX{}, Windows.
\end{funcdesc}