Filename

from panda3d.core import Filename

class Filename

Bases:

The name of a file, such as a texture file or an Egg file. Stores the full pathname, and includes functions for extracting out the directory prefix part and the file extension and stuff.

A Filename is also aware of the mapping between the Unix-like filename convention we use internally, and the local OS’s specific filename convention, and it knows how to perform basic OS-specific I/O, like testing for file existence and searching a searchpath, as well as the best way to open an fstream for reading or writing.

Note that the methods of Filename that interact with the filesystem (such as exists(), openRead(), etc.) directly interface with the operating system and are not aware of Panda’s virtual file system. To interact with the VFS, use the methods on VirtualFileSystem instead.

Inheritance diagram

enum Type

enumerator T_general = 0: These type values must fit within the bits allocated for F_type, below.

enumerator T_dso = 1

enumerator T_executable = 2

__add__(other: str) → Filename

__div__(other: Filename) → Filename

__eq__(other: str) → bool: Comparison operators are handy.

__fspath__() → object

__getitem__(n: int) → char

__iadd__(other: str) → Filename

__init__(): Creates an empty Filename.

__init__(dirname: Filename, basename: Filename): This constructor composes the filename out of a directory part and a basename part. It will insert an intervening ‘/’ if necessary.

__init__(path: object)

__lt__(other: str) → bool

__ne__(other: str) → bool

__nonzero__() → bool

Returns true if the Filename is valid (not empty), or false if it is an empty string.

This implements the Python equivalent to operator bool. Defining an actual operator bool method for C++ use would work too, but it seems to cause too many ambiguities for the C++ compiler, so we use this Python-only approach instead.

__reduce__() → object

__repr__() → object

__truediv__(other: Filename) → Filename

assign(copy: Filename) → Filename

assign(filename: str) → Filename

assign(filename: str) → Filename: Assignment is via the = operator.

assign(filename: str) → Filename

static binaryFilename(filename: Filename) → Filename

static binaryFilename(filename: str) → Filename

cStr() → str

chdir() → bool: Changes directory to the specified location. Returns true if successful, false if failure.

compareTimestamps(other: Filename, this_missing_is_old: bool, other_missing_is_old: bool) → int

Returns a number less than zero if the file named by this object is older than the given file, zero if they have the same timestamp, or greater than zero if this one is newer.

If this_missing_is_old is true, it indicates that a missing file will be treated as if it were older than any other file; otherwise, a missing file will be treated as if it were newer than any other file. Similarly for other_missing_is_old.

compareTo(other: Filename) → int

copyTo(other: Filename) → bool: Copies the file to the indicated new filename, by reading the contents and writing it to the new file. Returns true if successful, false on failure. The copy is always binary, regardless of the filename settings.

static dsoFilename(filename: str) → Filename

empty() → bool

static executableFilename(filename: str) → Filename

exists() → bool

Returns true if the filename exists on the physical disk, false otherwise. If the type is indicated to be executable, this also tests that the file has execute permission.

See panda3d.core.VirtualFileSystem.exists().

the virtual file system.

static expandFrom(user_string: str, type: Type) → Filename: Returns the same thing as fromOsSpecific(), but embedded environment variable references (e.g. “$DMODELS/foo.txt”) are expanded out. It also automatically elevates the file to its true case if needed.

extractComponents(components: vector_string): Extracts out the individual directory components of the path into a series of strings. getBasename() will be the last component stored in the vector. Note that no distinction is made by this method between a leading slash and no leading slash, but you can call isLocal() to differentiate the two cases.

findOnSearchpath(searchpath: DSearchPath) → int

Performs the reverse of the resolveFilename() operation: assuming that the current filename is fully-specified pathname (i.e. beginning with ‘/’), look on the indicated search path for a directory under which the file can be found. When found, adjust the Filename to be relative to the indicated directory name.

Returns the index of the directory on the searchpath at which the file was found, or -1 if it was not found.

static fromOsSpecific(os_specific: str, type: Type) → Filename

This named constructor returns a Panda-style filename (that is, using forward slashes, and no drive letter) based on the supplied filename string that describes a filename in the local system conventions (for instance, on Windows, it may use backslashes or begin with a drive letter and a colon).

Use this function to create a Filename from an externally-given filename string. Use toOsSpecific() again later to reconvert it back to the local operating system’s conventions.

This function will do the right thing even if the filename is partially local conventions and partially Panda conventions; e.g. some backslashes and some forward slashes.

static fromOsSpecificW(os_specific: str, type: Type) → Filename: The wide-string variant of fromOsSpecific(). Returns a new Filename, converted from an os-specific wide-character string.

getAccessTimestamp() → int: Returns a time_t value that represents the time the file was last accessed, if this information is available. See also getTimestamp(), which returns the last modification time.

getBasename() → str: Returns the basename part of the filename. This is everything in the filename after the rightmost slash, including any extensions.

getBasenameWoExtension() → str: Returns the basename part of the filename, without the file extension.

static getClassType() → TypeHandle

static getCommonAppdataDirectory() → Filename: Returns a path to a system-defined directory appropriate for creating a subdirectory for storing application-specific data, common to all users.

getDirname() → str: Returns the directory part of the filename. This is everything in the filename up to, but not including the rightmost slash.

getExtension() → str: Returns the file extension. This is everything after the rightmost dot, if there is one, or the empty string if there is not.

getFileSize() → int: Returns the size of the file in bytes, or 0 if there is an error.

getFilenameIndex(index: int) → Filename

If the pattern flag is set for this Filename and the filename string actually includes a sequence of hash marks, then this returns a new Filename with the sequence of hash marks replaced by the indicated index number.

If the pattern flag is not set for this Filename or it does not contain a sequence of hash marks, this quietly returns the original filename.

static getFilesystemEncoding() → Encoding: Specifies the default encoding to be used for all subsequent Filenames objects. See setFilesystemEncoding().

getFullpath() → str: Returns the entire filename: directory, basename, extension. This is the same thing returned by the string typecast operator.

getFullpathW() → str: Returns the entire filename as a wide-character string.

getFullpathWoExtension() → str: Returns the full filename–directory and basename parts–except for the extension.

getHash() → int: Returns a hash code that attempts to be mostly unique for different Filenames.

getHashToEnd() → str: Returns the part of the filename beginning at the hash sequence (if any), and continuing to the end of the filename.

static getHomeDirectory() → Filename: Returns a path to the user’s home directory, if such a thing makes sense in the current OS, or to the nearest equivalent. This may or may not be directly writable by the application.

getPattern() → bool: Returns the flag indicating whether this is a filename pattern. See setPattern().

static getTempDirectory() → Filename: Returns a path to a system-defined temporary directory.

getTimestamp() → int

Returns a time_t value that represents the time the file was last modified, to within whatever precision the operating system records this information (on a Windows95 system, for instance, this may only be accurate to within 2 seconds).

If the timestamp cannot be determined, either because it is not supported by the operating system or because there is some error (such as file not found), returns 0.

getType() → Type: Returns the type of the file represented by the filename, as previously set by setType().

static getUserAppdataDirectory() → Filename: Returns a path to a system-defined directory appropriate for creating a subdirectory for storing application-specific data, specific to the current user.

hasHash() → bool: Returns true if the filename is indicated to be a filename pattern (that is, set_pattern(true) was called), and the filename pattern did include a sequence of hash marks, or false if it was not a filename pattern or did not include hash marks. If this is true, then getFilenameIndex() will return a different filename each time.

isBinary() → bool: Returns true if the Filename has been indicated to represent a binary file via a previous call to setBinary(). It is possible that neither isBinary() nor isText() will be true, if neither setBinary() nor setText() was ever called.

isBinaryOrText() → bool: Returns true either isBinary() or isText() is true; that is, that the filename has been specified as either binary or text. If this is false, the filename has not been specified.

isDirectory() → bool

Returns true if the filename exists on the physical disk and is a directory name, false otherwise.

See panda3d.core.VirtualFileSystem.isDirectory().

exists as a directory in the virtual file system.

isExecutable() → bool: Returns true if the filename exists and is executable

isFullyQualified() → bool: Returns true if the filename is fully qualified, e.g. begins with a slash. This is almost, but not quite, the same thing as !is_local(). It’s not exactly the same because a special case is made for filenames that begin with a single dot followed by a slash–these are considered to be fully qualified (they are explicitly relative to the current directory, and do not refer to a filename on a search path somewhere).

isLocal() → bool: Returns true if the filename is local, e.g. does not begin with a slash, or false if the filename is fully specified from the root.

isRegularFile() → bool

Returns true if the filename exists on the physical disk and is the name of a regular file (i.e. not a directory or device), false otherwise.

See panda3d.core.VirtualFileSystem.isRegularFile().

exists and is a regular file in the virtual file system.

isText() → bool: Returns true if the Filename has been indicated to represent a text file via a previous call to setText(). It is possible that neither isBinary() nor isText() will be true, if neither setBinary() nor setText() was ever called.

isWritable() → bool: Returns true if the filename exists on the physical disk and is either a directory or a regular file that can be written to, or false otherwise.

length() → int

makeAbsolute()

Converts the filename to a fully-qualified pathname from the root (if it is a relative pathname), and then standardizes it (see standardize()).

This is sometimes a little problematic, since it may convert the file to its ‘true’ absolute pathname, which could be an ugly NFS-named file, irrespective of symbolic links (e.g. /.automount/dimbo/root/usr2/fit/people/drose instead of /fit/people/drose); besides being ugly, filenames like this may not be consistent across multiple different platforms.

makeAbsolute(start_directory: Filename): Converts the filename to a fully-qualified filename from the root (if it is a relative filename), and then standardizes it (see standardize()). This flavor accepts a specific starting directory that the filename is known to be relative to.

makeCanonical() → bool

Converts this filename to a canonical name by replacing the directory part with the fully-qualified directory part. This is done by changing to that directory and calling getcwd().

This has the effect of (a) converting relative paths to absolute paths (but see makeAbsolute() if this is the only effect you want), and (b) always resolving a given directory name to the same string, even if different symbolic links are traversed, and (c) changing nice symbolic-link paths like fit/people/drose to ugly NFS automounter names like hosts/dimbo/usr2/fit/people/drose. This can be troubling, but sometimes this is exactly what you want, particularly if you’re about to call makeRelativeTo() between two filenames.

The return value is true if successful, or false on failure (usually because the directory name does not exist or cannot be chdir’ed into).

makeDir() → bool

Creates all the directories in the path to the file specified in the filename, except for the basename itself. This assumes that the Filename contains the name of a file, not a directory name; it ensures that the directory containing the file exists.

However, if the filename ends in a slash, it assumes the Filename represents the name of a directory, and creates all the paths.

makeRelativeTo(directory: Filename, allow_backups: bool) → bool

Adjusts this filename, which must be a fully-specified pathname beginning with a slash, to make it a relative filename, relative to the fully- specified directory indicated (which must also begin with, and may or may not end with, a slash–a terminating slash is ignored).

This only performs a string comparsion, so it may be wise to call makeCanonical() on both filenames before calling makeRelativeTo().

If allow_backups is false, the filename will only be adjusted to be made relative if it is already somewhere within or below the indicated directory. If allow_backups is true, it will be adjusted in all cases, even if this requires putting a series of .. characters before the filename –unless it would have to back all the way up to the root.

Returns true if the file was adjusted, false if it was not.

makeTrueCase() → bool

On a case-insensitive operating system (e.g. Windows), this method looks up the file in the file system and resets the Filename to represent the actual case of the file as it exists on the disk. The return value is true if the file exists and the conversion can be made, or false if there is some error.

On a case-sensitive operating system, this method does nothing and always returns true.

An empty filename is considered to exist in this case.

mkdir() → bool: Creates the directory named by this filename. Unlike makeDir(), this assumes that the Filename contains the directory name itself. Also, parent directories are not automatically created; this function fails if any parent directory is missing.

openAppend(stream: pofstream) → bool: Opens the indicated pifstream for writing the file, if possible. Returns true if successful, false otherwise. This requires the setting of the set_text()/set_binary() flags to open the file appropriately as indicated; it is an error to call openRead() without first calling one of setText() or setBinary().

openAppend(stream: ofstream) → bool: Opens the indicated ofstream for writing the file, if possible. Returns true if successful, false otherwise. This requires the setting of the set_text()/set_binary() flags to open the file appropriately as indicated; it is an error to call openRead() without first calling one of setText() or setBinary().

openRead(stream: pifstream) → bool: Opens the indicated pifstream for reading the file, if possible. Returns true if successful, false otherwise. This requires the setting of the set_text()/set_binary() flags to open the file appropriately as indicated; it is an error to call openRead() without first calling one of setText() or setBinary().

openRead(stream: ifstream) → bool: Opens the indicated ifstream for reading the file, if possible. Returns true if successful, false otherwise. This requires the setting of the set_text()/set_binary() flags to open the file appropriately as indicated; it is an error to call openRead() without first calling one of setText() or setBinary().

openReadAppend(stream: pfstream) → bool: Opens the indicated pfstream for reading and writing the file, if possible; writes are appended to the end of the file. Returns true if successful, false otherwise. This requires the setting of the set_text()/set_binary() flags to open the file appropriately as indicated; it is an error to call openRead() without first calling one of setText() or setBinary().

openReadAppend(stream: fstream) → bool: Opens the indicated ifstream for reading and writing the file, if possible; writes are appended to the end of the file. Returns true if successful, false otherwise. This requires the setting of the set_text()/set_binary() flags to open the file appropriately as indicated; it is an error to call openRead() without first calling one of setText() or setBinary().

openReadWrite(stream: pfstream, truncate: bool) → bool: Opens the indicated fstream for read/write access to the file, if possible. Returns true if successful, false otherwise. This requires the setting of the set_text()/set_binary() flags to open the file appropriately as indicated; it is an error to call openReadWrite() without first calling one of setText() or setBinary().

openReadWrite(stream: fstream, truncate: bool) → bool: Opens the indicated fstream for read/write access to the file, if possible. Returns true if successful, false otherwise. This requires the setting of the set_text()/set_binary() flags to open the file appropriately as indicated; it is an error to call openReadWrite() without first calling one of setText() or setBinary().

openWrite(stream: pofstream, truncate: bool) → bool

Opens the indicated pifstream for writing the file, if possible. Returns true if successful, false otherwise. This requires the setting of the set_text()/set_binary() flags to open the file appropriately as indicated; it is an error to call openRead() without first calling one of setText() or setBinary().

If truncate is true, the file is truncated to zero length upon opening it, if it already exists. Otherwise, the file is kept at its original length.

openWrite(stream: ofstream, truncate: bool) → bool

Opens the indicated ifstream for writing the file, if possible. Returns true if successful, false otherwise. This requires the setting of the set_text()/set_binary() flags to open the file appropriately as indicated; it is an error to call openRead() without first calling one of setText() or setBinary().

If truncate is true, the file is truncated to zero length upon opening it, if it already exists. Otherwise, the file is kept at its original length.

output(out: ostream)

static patternFilename(filename: str) → Filename: Constructs a filename that represents a sequence of numbered files. See setPattern().

renameTo(other: Filename) → bool: Renames the file to the indicated new filename. If the new filename is in a different directory, this will perform a move. Returns true if successful, false on failure.

resolveFilename(searchpath: DSearchPath, default_extension: str) → bool: Searches the given search path for the filename. If it is found, updates the filename to the full pathname found and returns true; otherwise, returns false.

rmdir() → bool: The inverse of mkdir(): this removes the directory named by this Filename, if it is in fact a directory.

scanDirectory() → object

scanDirectory(contents: vector_string) → bool

Attempts to open the named filename as if it were a directory and looks for the non-hidden files within the directory. Fills the given vector up with the sorted list of filenames that are local to this directory.

It is the user’s responsibility to ensure that the contents vector is empty before making this call; otherwise, the new files will be appended to it.

Returns true on success, false if the directory could not be read for some reason.

setBasename(s: str): Replaces the basename part of the filename. This is everything in the filename after the rightmost slash, including any extensions.

setBasenameWoExtension(s: str): Replaces the basename part of the filename, without the file extension.

setBinary(): Setting these flags appropriately is helpful when opening or searching for a file; it helps the Filename resolve OS-specific conventions (for instance, that dynamic library names should perhaps be changed from .so to .dll).

setDirname(s: str): Replaces the directory part of the filename. This is everything in the filename up to, but not including the rightmost slash.

setExtension(s: str): Replaces the file extension. This is everything after the rightmost dot, if there is one, or the empty string if there is not.

static setFilesystemEncoding(encoding: Encoding): Specifies the default encoding to be used for all subsequent Filenames. This is used to represent wide-character (Unicode) filenames internally. On non-Windows-based systems, the encoded filename is also passed to the underlying operating system.

setFullpath(s: str): Replaces the entire filename: directory, basename, extension. This can also be achieved with the assignment operator.

setFullpathWoExtension(s: str): Replaces the full filename–directory and basename parts–except for the extension.

setHashToEnd(s: str): Replaces the part of the filename from the beginning of the hash sequence to the end of the filename.

setPattern(pattern: bool)

Sets the flag indicating whether this is a filename pattern. When this is true, the filename is understood to be a placeholder for a numbered sequence of filename, such as an image sequence. In this case, a sequence of one or more hash characters (“#”) should appear in the filename string; these characters will be filled in with the corresponding number (or more) of digits representing the sequence number. Sequence numbers always begin counting at 0.

When this is true, methods like hasHash() and getHashToEnd() and getFilenameIndex() may be called. Methods like is_exists() will implicitly test for existance of filename sequence 0.

setText(): Indicates that the filename represents a text file. This is primarily relevant to the read_file() and write_file() methods, so they can set the appropriate flags to the OS.

setType(type: Type): Sets the type of the file represented by the filename. This is useful for toOsSpecific(), resolveFilename(), test_existence(), and all such real- world access functions. It helps the Filename know how to map the internal filename to the OS-specific filename (for instance, maybe executables should have an .exe extension).

standardize(): Converts the filename to standard form by replacing consecutive slashes with a single slash, removing a trailing slash if present, and backing up over .. sequences within the filename where possible.

substr(begin: int) → str

substr(begin: int, end: int) → str

static temporary(dirname: str, prefix: str, suffix: str, type: Type) → Filename

Generates a temporary filename within the indicated directory, using the indicated prefix. If the directory is empty, a system-defined directory is chosen instead.

The generated filename did not exist when the Filename checked, but since it does not specifically create the file, it is possible that another process could simultaneously create a file by the same name.

static textFilename(filename: Filename) → Filename: Static constructors to explicitly create a filename that refers to a text or binary file. This is in lieu of calling setText() or setBinary() or setType().

static textFilename(filename: str) → Filename

toOsGeneric() → str

This is similar to toOsSpecific(), but it is designed to generate a filename that can be understood on as many platforms as possible. Since Windows can usually understand a forward-slash-delimited filename, this means it does the same thing as toOsSpecific(), but it uses forward slashes instead of backslashes.

This method has a pretty limited use; it should generally be used for writing file references to a file that might be read on any operating system.

toOsLongName() → str: This is the opposite of to_os_short_name(): it returns the “long name” of the filename, if the filename exists. On non-Windows platforms, this returns the same thing as toOsSpecific().

toOsShortName() → str

This works like toOsGeneric(), but it returns the “short name” version of the filename, if it exists, or the original filename otherwise.

On Windows platforms, this returns the 8.3 filename version of the given filename, if the file exists, and the same thing as toOsSpecific() otherwise. On non-Windows platforms, this always returns the same thing as toOsSpecific().

toOsSpecific() → str

Converts the filename from our generic Unix-like convention (forward slashes starting with the root at ‘/’) to the corresponding filename in the local operating system (slashes in the appropriate direction, starting with the root at C:, for instance). Returns the string representing the converted filename, but does not change the Filename itself.