Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset 62321359c35b by Georg Brandl in branch '3.3':
Closes #15228: remove reference to Unix touch; it is confusing since the path
needs to exist for os.utime() to succeed
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/62321359c35b
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Larry Hastings la...@hastings.org added the comment:
I don't think this needs clarifying. If you think the reference to touch
currently only muddles the issue, let's remove it entirely.
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Brian Brazil brian.bra...@gmail.com added the comment:
Here's a patch that should clarify this.
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26306/issue15228-utime-touch-doc.patch
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Changes by Larry Hastings la...@hastings.org:
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http://bugs.python.org/issue15228
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New submission from Daniel Grace thisgenericn...@gmail.com:
The documentation for os.utime() at
http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/os.html#os.utime states:
Set the access and modified times of the file specified by path. [...] The
effect is similar to running the Unix program touch on the
