""" Move a file in the safest way possible:: >>> from django.core.files.move import file_move_safe >>> file_move_safe("/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, tries ``os.rename``, which is simple but will break across filesystems. If that fails, 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. (For the # systems where this happens, temporary files will be auto-deleted # on close anyway.) if getattr(e, 'winerror', 0) != 32 and getattr(e, 'errno', 0) != 13: raise