I have a pure-Python program developed on a POSIX platform (FreeBSD) that I'd like to make fully compatible with Windows systems as well. The only conflict arises insofar as this program makes considerable use of the stat UID and GID values, as well as their corresponding user- and group names. Since Windows has not grp and pwd modules, I need to synthesize this.
In the past, I've solved this problem by detecting the presence of Win32All. If present, I do the necessary magic to return the true UID/name, GID/name info from Windows itself. If not, I return UID/GID as provided by an os.stat call and use the phoby names "winuser" and "wingroup" respectively. Now for the question: Is there even an instance of Win32All for 64-bit OSs like Vista and Win7? If not, I'm inclined not bother with it at all and just return the phony values as placeholders because I do not want different features on 32- and 64-bit platforms. Thanks, -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
