On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:28:49 -0400 "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:49:54 +1200, Ben Hoyt <benh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I guess it has to be dropped at some stage, but with Windows XP it's a case > > of "XP is dead. Long live XP!" There are still an awful lot of XP boxes out > > there, and I'd kind hate to see support dropped completely. We still use it > > here at home. > > > > Wikipedia/Net Applications says that Windows XP has still has a full 37% of > > market share! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems > > ) > > > > What about just have these attributes/functions on OSes that support it, > > for example os.kill on Python 2.6 vs 2.7? > > I'm afraid it's not that simple. The issue (as I understand it from Crys) > is that we compile using setting that prevent the advanced features being > used, and that's really the only way to do it. That is, you can only get > the advanced features by using certain settings, and if you use those, > the compiled code won't run on XP. So it is not practical to decide only > at runtime to support the advanced feature,
It's not practical, but we already do it. See check_GetFinalPathNameByHandle in Modules/posixmodule.c. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
