def newer(source, target):
    """Tells if the target is newer than the source.

    Return true if 'source' exists and is more recently modified than
    'target', or if 'source' exists and 'target' doesn't.

    Return false if both exist and 'target' is the same age or younger
    than 'source'. Raise DistutilsFileError if 'source' does not exist.

    Note that this test is not very accurate: files created in the same second
    will have the same "age".
    """
    if not os.path.exists(source):
        raise DistutilsFileError("file '%s' does not exist" %
                                 os.path.abspath(source))
    if not os.path.exists(target):
        return True

    return os.stat(source)[ST_MTIME] > os.stat(target)[ST_MTIME]
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