[Patches] utime(path, NULL)

[Guido van Rossum]

> On some OSes (Solaris and Linux at least), the second argument to
> utime() can be NULL, which sets the atime and mtime of the file to the
> current time.  Here is a patch that gives this functionality if second
> argument to os.utime() is omitted.  E.g.
> 
> import os
> os.utime(path)
> 
> ==
> 
> #include <utime.h>
> utime(path, NULL)
> 
> One minor bogosity: because of the way default arguments work for
> longs, os.utime(path) is equivalent to os.utime(path, (-1, -1)).  Is
> this a big deal?  Should other magic be used instead?

The logical translation would be to require passing in None rather
than leaving out the argument.  The (-1, -1) default is ugly.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)