On Apr 13, 8:39 pm, Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> wrote: > On 2009-04-13, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > > > But there's a cache. A change of file contents may go > > undetected as long as the file stats don't change: > > Good point. You can fool it if you force the stats to their > old values after you modify a file and you don't clear the > cache.
The timestamps stored on the filesystem (for ext3 and most other filesystems) are fairly coarse, so it's quite possible for a check/ update/check sequence to have the same timestamp at the beginning and end. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
