root/django/trunk/django/core/files/move.py

"""
Move a file in the safest way possible::

    >>> from django.core.files.move import file_move_save
    >>> file_move_save("/tmp/old_file", "/tmp/new_file")
"""

import os
from django.core.files import locks

try:
    from shutil import copystat
except ImportError:
    import stat
    def copystat(src, dst):
        """Copy all stat info (mode bits, atime and mtime) from src to dst"""
        st = os.stat(src)
        mode = stat.S_IMODE(st.st_mode)
        if hasattr(os, 'utime'):
            os.utime(dst, (st.st_atime, st.st_mtime))
        if hasattr(os, 'chmod'):
            os.chmod(dst, mode)

__all__ = ['file_move_safe']

def _samefile(src, dst):
    # Macintosh, Unix.
    if hasattr(os.path,'samefile'):
        try:
            return os.path.samefile(src, dst)
        except OSError:
            return False

    # All other platforms: check for same pathname.
    return (os.path.normcase(os.path.abspath(src)) ==
            os.path.normcase(os.path.abspath(dst)))

def file_move_safe(old_file_name, new_file_name, chunk_size = 1024*64, allow_overwrite=False):
    """
    Moves a file from one location to another in the safest way possible.

    First, try using ``shutils.move``, which is OS-dependent but doesn't break
    if moving across filesystems. Then, try ``os.rename``, which will break
    across filesystems. Finally, streams manually from one file to another in
    pure Python.

    If the destination file exists and ``allow_overwrite`` is ``False``, this
    function will throw an ``IOError``.
    """

    # There's no reason to move if we don't have to.
    if _samefile(old_file_name, new_file_name):
        return

    try:
        os.rename(old_file_name, new_file_name)
        return
    except OSError:
        # This will happen with os.rename if moving to another filesystem
        # or when moving opened files on certain operating systems
        pass

    # first open the old file, so that it won't go away
    old_file = open(old_file_name, 'rb')
    try:
        # now open the new file, not forgetting allow_overwrite
        fd = os.open(new_file_name, os.O_WRONLY | os.O_CREAT | getattr(os, 'O_BINARY', 0) |
                                    (not allow_overwrite and os.O_EXCL or 0))
        try:
            locks.lock(fd, locks.LOCK_EX)
            current_chunk = None
            while current_chunk != '':
                current_chunk = old_file.read(chunk_size)
                os.write(fd, current_chunk)
        finally:
            locks.unlock(fd)
            os.close(fd)
    finally:
        old_file.close()
    copystat(old_file_name, new_file_name)

    try:
        os.remove(old_file_name)
    except OSError, e:
        # Certain operating systems (Cygwin and Windows)
        # fail when deleting opened files, ignore it
        if getattr(e, 'winerror', 0) != 32:
            # FIXME: should we also ignore errno 13?
            raise