Minor documentation change - hyperlink tidied up.
[python.git] / Lib / linecache.py
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1 """Cache lines from files.
3 This is intended to read lines from modules imported -- hence if a filename
4 is not found, it will look down the module search path for a file by
5 that name.
6 """
8 import sys
9 import os
11 __all__ = ["getline", "clearcache", "checkcache"]
13 def getline(filename, lineno, module_globals=None):
14 lines = getlines(filename, module_globals)
15 if 1 <= lineno <= len(lines):
16 return lines[lineno-1]
17 else:
18 return ''
21 # The cache
23 cache = {} # The cache
26 def clearcache():
27 """Clear the cache entirely."""
29 global cache
30 cache = {}
33 def getlines(filename, module_globals=None):
34 """Get the lines for a file from the cache.
35 Update the cache if it doesn't contain an entry for this file already."""
37 if filename in cache:
38 return cache[filename][2]
39 else:
40 return updatecache(filename, module_globals)
43 def checkcache(filename=None):
44 """Discard cache entries that are out of date.
45 (This is not checked upon each call!)"""
47 if filename is None:
48 filenames = cache.keys()
49 else:
50 if filename in cache:
51 filenames = [filename]
52 else:
53 return
55 for filename in filenames:
56 size, mtime, lines, fullname = cache[filename]
57 if mtime is None:
58 continue # no-op for files loaded via a __loader__
59 try:
60 stat = os.stat(fullname)
61 except os.error:
62 del cache[filename]
63 continue
64 if size != stat.st_size or mtime != stat.st_mtime:
65 del cache[filename]
68 def updatecache(filename, module_globals=None):
69 """Update a cache entry and return its list of lines.
70 If something's wrong, print a message, discard the cache entry,
71 and return an empty list."""
73 if filename in cache:
74 del cache[filename]
75 if not filename or filename[0] + filename[-1] == '<>':
76 return []
78 fullname = filename
79 try:
80 stat = os.stat(fullname)
81 except os.error, msg:
82 basename = os.path.split(filename)[1]
84 # Try for a __loader__, if available
85 if module_globals and '__loader__' in module_globals:
86 name = module_globals.get('__name__')
87 loader = module_globals['__loader__']
88 get_source = getattr(loader, 'get_source', None)
90 if name and get_source:
91 if basename.startswith(name.split('.')[-1]+'.'):
92 try:
93 data = get_source(name)
94 except (ImportError, IOError):
95 pass
96 else:
97 if data is None:
98 # No luck, the PEP302 loader cannot find the source
99 # for this module.
100 return []
101 cache[filename] = (
102 len(data), None,
103 [line+'\n' for line in data.splitlines()], fullname
105 return cache[filename][2]
107 # Try looking through the module search path.
109 for dirname in sys.path:
110 # When using imputil, sys.path may contain things other than
111 # strings; ignore them when it happens.
112 try:
113 fullname = os.path.join(dirname, basename)
114 except (TypeError, AttributeError):
115 # Not sufficiently string-like to do anything useful with.
116 pass
117 else:
118 try:
119 stat = os.stat(fullname)
120 break
121 except os.error:
122 pass
123 else:
124 # No luck
125 ## print '*** Cannot stat', filename, ':', msg
126 return []
127 try:
128 fp = open(fullname, 'rU')
129 lines = fp.readlines()
130 fp.close()
131 except IOError, msg:
132 ## print '*** Cannot open', fullname, ':', msg
133 return []
134 size, mtime = stat.st_size, stat.st_mtime
135 cache[filename] = size, mtime, lines, fullname
136 return lines