view tests/svn-safe-append.py @ 31393:8b6927eb7efd

util: don't use mutable default argument value

I don't think this is any tight loops and we'd need to worry about
PyObject creation overhead. Also, I'm pretty sure strptime()
will be much slower than PyObject creation (date parsing is
surprisingly slow).

#!/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