Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
sys.platform
'linux2'
linux2? What are the possible values for `sys.platform`?
This is why I usually write Python code that checks sys.platform
like
if sys.platform.startswith(linux):
...
So the condition language for the metadata needs a startswith
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
Tarek Ziadé wrote:
Imagine a command with the name foo, that has an option called
condition.
If you really want to keep the entire keyword namespace
available for use as a section sees fit, it would be better
to
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:42 AM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote:
What use cases do we have? There's the one described above, which lots of
people have been talking about. I think there's another one related to
target Python version - eg, on Python 2.3, depend on simplejson, but on
Python
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Greg Ewing
greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
sys.platform
'linux2'
linux2? What are the possible values for `sys.platform`?
This is why I usually write Python code that checks sys.platform
like
if
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 17:38 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
My question is: How to reliably access data files from a module in
foo?
Approach 2 - writing a build.py file at installation time
-
The last question made me think, that
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 17:40 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 17:38 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
My question is: How to reliably access data files from a module in
foo?
Approach 2 - writing a build.py file at installation time
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:14:32 -0700, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote:
So if I resume, so far the uses cases are:
- the OS given by os.name and sys.platform
(linux/mac/windows/riscos/ce/ etc..)
- the architecture, given by os.uname() (32/64 bits)
- the python version, given
Tarek Ziadé wrote:
What about 'in' ?
Yes, I guess that's good enough.
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P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com writes:
http://docs.python.org/distutils/apiref.html#module-distutils.core -
specifically the run_setup() function. (It appears the docs do not
have link anchors for individual functions, alas.)
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:14:32 -0400, P.J. Eby wrote:
Do we have anything besides dependencies that change based on the
above? If not, then we might be able to address this with the
extras syntax mechanism already present in install_requires, and we
might able to do it without even changing
At 08:10 PM 9/16/2009 -0400, David Lyon wrote:
To answer the question, things like destination directory for
applications could change ie /opt/myapp or \Program Files\myapp
for linux and windows respectively.
It's not the application's business what the installation directory
is; certainly
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:01:20 -0400, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com
wrote:
It's not the application's business what the installation directory
is;
Yes, but it very much is.
An application needs to know what directory it has been installed
in and where it can find configuration files and so
At 10:13 PM 9/16/2009 -0400, David Lyon wrote:
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:01:20 -0400, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com
wrote:
It's not the application's business what the installation directory
is;
Yes, but it very much is.
An application needs to know what directory it has been installed
in and
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