Igor Kravtchenko wrote:
> 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
the usual thing to test for is sys.platform, not os.name.
if sys.platform == "win32":
some win32 code (or win64 code)
else:
some linux 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.
sounds weird. have you checked your code so you don't assign to os.name
somewhere, by accident?
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