From: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 16:18:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document the new additional signature for utime().  In addition to the
X-Git-Tag: v2.0b1~1896
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=93a8eacde559ef3fd910f80f59208054ff99dab9;p=python

Document the new additional signature for utime().  In addition to the
previous functionality utime(path, (atime, mtime)), now allowed is
utime(path, None) which sets the file's times to the current time.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
index 4001447f35..0fb8f10185 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
@@ -702,9 +702,12 @@ Remove the file \var{path}.  This is the same function as
 Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX{}, Windows.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
-\begin{funcdesc}{utime}{path, (atime, mtime)}
-Set the access and modified time of the file to the given values.
-(The second argument is a tuple of two items.)
+\begin{funcdesc}{utime}{path, times}
+Set the access and modified times of the file specified by \var{path}.
+If \var{times} is \code{None}, then the file's access and modified
+times are set to the current time.  Otherwise, \var{times} must be a
+2-tuple of numbers, of the form \var{(atime, mtime)} which is used to
+set the access and modified times, respectively.
 Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX{}, Windows.
 \end{funcdesc}