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minirst: better interaction between comments and margins You can now split a list with a comment: * foo .. separator * bar and the two list items will no longer be run together, that is the output is * foo * bar instead of * foo * bar
author Martin Geisler <mg@aragost.com>
date Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:10:50 +0100
parents c1b47c0fd2b6
children bdba6a2015d0
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#!/usr/bin/env python

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

import sys, os

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