On 5 Mar 2013, at 05:39, Jeff Hardy <jdha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> > wrote: >> >> On 1 Mar 2013, at 18:38, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:32:23 -0500 >>> Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On the other hand in some ways Jython is sort of like Python on a >>>>> weird virtual OS that lets the real OS bleed through some. This may >>>>> still need to be checked in that way (there's are still checks of <if >>>>> os.name == 'nt'> right?) >>>> >>>> Yeah, but that all ooooold code ;) >>> >>> Hmm, what do you mean? `os.name == 'nt'` is still the proper way to >>> test that we're running on a Windows system (more accurately, over the >>> Windows API). >>> >> >> It has been used incorrectly in a few places in the Python standard library >> - Windows support code that would work correctly on IronPython is skipped >> because os.name is *not* 'nt' on IronPython. That was the case in the past >> anyway. It's quite some time since I've used IronPython now. > > I think you misremembered - there's lots of code that uses > `sys.platform == 'win32'` to detect Windows, but sys.platform is 'cli' > for IronPython. I'm pretty sure `os.name has always been 'nt' (when > running on Windows), and if not, it definitely is now. > > Jython sets os.name to 'java' (IIRC), so there isn't a uniform way to > detect Windows across all implementations. >
Ah, I'm sure you're correct. Thanks. > - Jeff -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com