Don't follow symbolic links

[1024mb]

Could an option to ignore symlinks be added? Currently it follows the symlink and the actual file gets updated.

[Delgan]

Hi.

That sounds like a good idea. I added a new follow_symlinks argument (defaults to True) to the setctime()function.

You can uprade to 1.1.0 to use it. 👍

[1024mb]

@Delgan I just tried it and it works great. Can you please make a module for mtime and atime? I'm asking because os.utime doesn't support follow_symlinks on Windows and your module does.

[Delgan]

The documentation of os.utime() states you can use follow_symlinks=False. Are you saying this parameter does not work on Windows?

[1024mb]

Yes, I've tried it and it doesn't work, you will get something along the lines that follow_symlinks is not supported on this platform. Even querying os.utime in os.supports_follow_symlinks returns False.

[Delgan]

Ok, thanks. I didn't know the support for symlinks was platform dependent, there even exists os.supports_follow_symlinks to list supported functions.

I'm sorry but I prefer not to add the utime() support to this library. It wouldn't fit its name, it was only meant to change the st_ctime attribute and my usage does not require modifying the other ones.

Ideally, support for symlinks should be added directly to the official Python implementation. I looked at the code a bit, and after finding the implementation I opened a feature request: https://bugs.python.org/issue46490

Maybe the os.utime() function will be improved.

[1024mb]

I'm sorry but I prefer not to add the utime() support to this library.

I was not referring to add support to setctime but to create another module.
Either way, hopefully support it's added in next versions of Python. Thanks for opening the issue.