#!/usr/bin/env python3

# Contest Management System - http://cms-dev.github.io/
# Copyright © 2010-2013 Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani@poisson.phc.unipi.it>
# Copyright © 2010-2018 Stefano Maggiolo <s.maggiolo@gmail.com>
# Copyright © 2010-2012 Matteo Boscariol <boscarim@hotmail.com>
#
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"""Utilities for cmscontrib"""

import os


# Taken from
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1158076/implement-touch-using-python
def touch(path):
    """Touch path, which must be regular file.

    This behaves like the UNIX touch utility.

    path (str): the path to be touched.

    """
    with open(path, 'ab'):
        os.utime(path, None)