Hi! We have an application using Python that is intended to work both under Win32 and Linux. Since some parts of the code need to be different depending whether we are under Win32 or Linux, we use the traditional:
if os.name == "posix": some Linux code else: some Win32 code However, we have noticed that under some circumstances, in some cases, in some computers under Windows XP Family that the "posix" code was executed causing of course a crash. My question is whether that is supposed to be totally impossible. Under Win32, we are indeed supposed to have os.name = "nt". Is that value hardcoded in Win32 binaries distribution themself? Can it potentially change? The purpose of this thread would be to have confirmed that under Win32, os.name cannot never, ever be equal to "posix", whatever happens and so, that we must have done some other mistakes elsewhere. Thanks for any enlighting, Igor. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
