On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:38 PM, waltbrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now. Run this on linux. The first condition evaluates sys.platform[:3] > == 'win' as false. So, the next comparison should be 'False' or > 'python' -- This is because 'and' returns the first false value. > But, again, on linux pyfile evaluates to python.exe
This seems to work as expected on my Ubuntu box. Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 5 2007, 13:36:32) [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os, sys >>> sys.platform 'linux2' >>> pyfile = (sys.platform[:3] == 'win' and 'python.exe') or 'python' >>> pyfile 'python' >>> What do you get for sys.platform when you run this code under linux? -- Jerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
