Hi Fredrik, yes I've checked and I'm sure we don't assign os.name somewhere ourself. I'll replace os.name == "posix" with sys.platform == "win32" as you suggested and see how thing goes.
Thanks for your help, Igor. Fredrik Lundh wrote: >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? > ></F> > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
