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  • Committer: Max Bowsher
  • Date: 2009-09-11 02:17:29 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 9401.
  • Revision ID: maxb@f2s.com-20090911021729-s53vpqlbywi0805c
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    else:
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        return 0
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    # Clear out the cache so we can try again after building it:
 
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    # sys.path_importer_cache is a mapping of elements of sys.path to importer
 
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    # objects used to handle them. In Python2.5+ when an element of sys.path is
 
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    # found to not exist on disk, a NullImporter is created and cached - this
 
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    # causes Python to never bother re-inspecting the disk for that path
 
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    # element. We must clear that cache element so that our second attempt to
 
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    # import MailMan after building it will actually check the disk.
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    del sys.path_importer_cache[mailman_path]
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    # Make sure the target directories exist and have the correct