tests/svn-safe-append.py

smcposix: pass unicode as first argument to array.array

This is an instance where we can safely convert the first argument, rest are
the cases except one where we are using 'c' which is not there in Python 3. So
that needs to be handled differently. This will help in making `hg help` run on
Python 3.

#!/usr/bin/env python

from __future__ import absolute_import

__doc__ = """Same as `echo a >> b`, but ensures a changed mtime of b.
Without this svn will not detect workspace changes."""

import os
import sys

text = sys.argv[1]
fname = sys.argv[2]

f = open(fname, "ab")
try:
    before = os.fstat(f.fileno()).st_mtime
    f.write(text)
    f.write("\n")
finally:
    f.close()
inc = 1
now = os.stat(fname).st_mtime
while now == before:
    t = now + inc
    inc += 1
    os.utime(fname, (t, t))
    now = os.stat(fname).st_mtime