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class AbstractFilePath: (source)

Known subclasses: twisted.python.filepath.FilePath, twisted.python.zippath.ZipPath

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Abstract implementation of an IFilePath; must be completed by a subclass.

This class primarily exists to provide common implementations of certain methods in IFilePath. It is *not* a required parent class for IFilePath implementations, just a useful starting point.

Method __hash__ Hash the same as another FilePath with the same path as mine.
Method children List the children of this path object.
Method descendant Retrieve a child or child's child of this path.
Method getatime Deprecated. Use getAccessTime instead.
Method getContent Retrieve the contents of the file at this path.
Method getctime Deprecated. Use getStatusChangeTime instead.
Method getmtime Deprecated. Use getModificationTime instead.
Method parents Retrieve an iterator of all the ancestors of this path.
Method segmentsFrom Return a list of segments between a child and its ancestor.
Method sibling Return a FilePath with the same directory as this instance but with a basename of path.
Method walk Yield myself, then each of my children, and each of those children's children in turn.
def __hash__(self): (source)
Hash the same as another FilePath with the same path as mine.
def children(self): (source)
List the children of this path object.
Returns
an iterable of all currently-existing children of this object.
Raises
OSErrorIf an error occurs while listing the directory. If the error is 'serious', meaning that the operation failed due to an access violation, exhaustion of some kind of resource (file descriptors or memory), OSError or a platform-specific variant will be raised.
UnlistableErrorIf the inability to list the directory is due to this path not existing or not being a directory, the more specific OSError subclass UnlistableError is raised instead.
def descendant(self, segments): (source)
Retrieve a child or child's child of this path.
Parameters
segmentsA sequence of path segments as str instances.
Returns
A FilePath constructed by looking up the segments[0] child of this path, the segments[1] child of that path, and so on.
Present Since
10.2
def getatime(self): (source)
Deprecated. Use getAccessTime instead.
def getContent(self): (source)
Retrieve the contents of the file at this path.
Returns
bytesthe contents of the file
def getctime(self): (source)
Deprecated. Use getStatusChangeTime instead.
def getmtime(self): (source)
Deprecated. Use getModificationTime instead.
def parents(self): (source)
Retrieve an iterator of all the ancestors of this path.
Returns
an iterator of all the ancestors of this path, from the most recent (its immediate parent) to the root of its filesystem.
def segmentsFrom(self, ancestor): (source)

Return a list of segments between a child and its ancestor.

For example, in the case of a path X representing /a/b/c/d and a path Y representing /a/b, Y.segmentsFrom(X) will return ['c', 'd'].

Parameters
ancestoran instance of the same class as self, ostensibly an ancestor of self.
Returns
a list of strs
Raises
ValueErrorIf the ancestor parameter is not actually an ancestor, i.e. a path for /x/y/z is passed as an ancestor for /a/b/c/d.
def sibling(self, path): (source)
Return a FilePath with the same directory as this instance but with a basename of path.
Parameters
path:strThe basename of the FilePath to return.
Returns
FilePathThe sibling path.
def walk(self, descend=None): (source)

Yield myself, then each of my children, and each of those children's children in turn.

The optional argument descend is a predicate that takes a FilePath, and determines whether or not that FilePath is traversed/descended into. It will be called with each path for which isdir returns True. If descend is not specified, all directories will be traversed (including symbolic links which refer to directories).

Parameters
descendA one-argument callable that will return True for FilePaths that should be traversed, False otherwise.
Returns
a generator yielding FilePath-like objects.