Christian Heimes added the comment: I'm with Chris. The information should be stored in the os module. I suggest os.shell var or os.get_shell() function like this:
def get_shell(): for path in confstr("CS_PATH").split(pathsep): sh = sep.join((path, "sh")) try: mode = stat(sh).st_mode except OSError: pass else: if st.S_ISREG(mode): return sh raise FileNotFound("sh") According to all examples S_ISREG() is sufficient here. On Windows the function should use the env var COMSPEC instead of hard coding "cmd.exe". ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16353> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com