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Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Well, it really does look like checking for the presence of those
> ANDROID_* environment variables it the best way to recognize the
> Android platform. Anyone can do that without waiting for a ruling on
> whether Android i
Well, it really does look like checking for the presence of those ANDROID_*
environment variables it the best way to recognize the Android platform.
Anyone can do that without waiting for a ruling on whether Android is Linux
or not (which would be necessary because the docs for sys.platform are
qui
Shiz wrote:
I'm not sure a check to see if e.g.
/system exists is really enough to conclude Python is running on Android
on its own.
Since MacOSX has /System and typically a case-insensitive
file system, it certainly wouldn't. :-)
--
Greg
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Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Can you give a few examples of where you'd need to differentiate
> Android from other Linux platforms in otherwise portable code, and
> where testing for the presence or absence of the specific function
> that you'd like to
Thanks for spotting,
There is a new patch in http://bugs.python.org/issue22125 to fix the
warnings.
David
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On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Shiz wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > sys.platform is for a broad indication of the OS kernel. It can be
> > used to distinguish Windows, Mac and Linux (and BSD, Solaris etc.).
> > Since Android is Linux it should have the same sys.platform as other
> > Linux
Right.
On Saturday, August 2, 2014, Phil Thompson
wrote:
> On 02/08/2014 7:36 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Phil Thompson <
>> p...@riverbankcomputing.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> To me the issue is whether, for a particular value of sys.platform, the
>>> programmer
On 02/08/2014 7:36 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Phil Thompson
wrote:
To me the issue is whether, for a particular value of sys.platform,
the
programmer can expect a particular Python stdlib API. If so then
Android
needs a different value for sys.platform.
On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 05:39:12PM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Repeated list and str concatenation both have quadratic O(N**2)
> performance, but people frequently build up strings with + and rarely
> do the same for lists. String concatenation with + is an attractive
> nuisance for many peopl
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Guido van Rossum wrote:
> sys.platform is for a broad indication of the OS kernel. It can be
> used to distinguish Windows, Mac and Linux (and BSD, Solaris etc.).
> Since Android is Linux it should have the same sys.platform as other
> Linux systems
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Phil Thompson
wrote:
> To me the issue is whether, for a particular value of sys.platform, the
> programmer can expect a particular Python stdlib API. If so then Android
> needs a different value for sys.platform.
>
sys.platform is for a broad indication of the O
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> I don't think sum(strings) is beautiful enough
sum(strings) is more beautiful than ''.join(strings) in my view, but
unfortunately it does not work even for lists because the initial value
defaults to 0.
sum(strings, '') and ''.join(string
On 2014-08-02 16:27, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 10:52:07AM -0400, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> String concatenation with + is an attractive
> nuisance for many people, including some who actually know better but
> neve
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Akira Li wrote:
> Python uses os.name, sys.platform, and various functions from
> `platform` module to provide version info:
>
> - coarse: os.name is 'posix', 'nt', 'ce', 'java' [1]. It is defined
> by availability of some builtin modules ('posix',
On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 10:52:07AM -0400, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> > String concatenation with + is an attractive
> > nuisance for many people, including some who actually know better but
> > nevertheless do it. Also, for reasons I d
Alexander Belopolsky schrieb am 02.08.2014 um 16:52:
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> String concatenation with + is an attractive
>> nuisance for many people, including some who actually know better but
>> nevertheless do it. Also, for reasons I don't understand, many
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> String concatenation with + is an attractive
> nuisance for many people, including some who actually know better but
> nevertheless do it. Also, for reasons I don't understand, many people
> dislike or cannot remember to use ''.join.
>
Sin
Julian Taylor schrieb am 02.08.2014 um 12:11:
> On 02.08.2014 08:35, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> On 8/2/2014 1:57 AM, Allen Li wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 02:51:54PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
No. We just can't put all possible use cases in the docstring. :-)
On Fri, Aug 1,
On 02.08.2014 08:35, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 8/2/2014 1:57 AM, Allen Li wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 02:51:54PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>> No. We just can't put all possible use cases in the docstring. :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Andrea Griffini wrote:
>>>
>>>
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:57:38PM -0700, Allen Li wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 02:51:54PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > No. We just can't put all possible use cases in the docstring. :-)
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Andrea Griffini wrote:
> >
> > help(sum) tells cle
On 02/08/2014 4:34 am, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Or SL4A? (https://github.com/damonkohler/sl4a)
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 05:53:45AM +0400, Akira Li wrote:
> Python uses os.name, sys.platform, and various functions from `platform`
> modul
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