convenience functions and classes for files and filenames/pathnames
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Pathname: subclass of str with convenience properties useful for pathnames
BackedFile: a RawIOBase implementation that uses a backing file for initial data and writes new data to a front file
SharedAppendFile: a base class to share a modifiable file between multiple users
SharedAppendLines: a subclass of SharedAppendFile which shares updates in units oftext lines
FileState: a signature object for a file state derived from os.stat or os.lstat or os.fstat; has .mtime, .size, .dev and .ino attributes
Tee: an output file-like object for copying data to multiple output files
abspath_from_file: restore relative path with respect to another path, as for an include filename
chunks_of: generator yielding text or data from an open file until EOF
lines_of: generator yielding lines of text from an open file until EOF
compare: compare two filenames or file-like objects for content equality
@file_property: decorator for a caching property whose value is recomputed if the file changes
make_file_property: constructor for variants on @file_property
@files_property: decorator for a caching property whose value is recomputed if any of a set of files changes
make_files_property: constructor for variants on @files_property
lockfile: context manager to take a lock file around an operation, such as access to a shared file
shortpath: return path with the first matching leading prefix replaced with short form such as “~/” or “$LOGDIR/” etc
longpath: the inverse of shortpath
mkdirn: create a new directory named path+sep+n, where n exceeds any name already present
poll_file: watch a file for modification by polling its state as obtained by FileState
rewrite: rewrite the content of a file if changed; with an assortment of modes
rewrite_cmgr: a context manager made from rewrite()
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