> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:26 AM, M Kumar <tomanis...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Hi, >> >> > >> >> > I am writing a server side program, clients can be any machine but >> >> > the >> >> > server machine is Linux. In program I want to use the OS module based >> >> > on >> >> > the >> >> > client's operating system. But when I do "import os" m only able to >> >> > get >> >> > the >> >> > module with the property of Linux. ANy idea how to import the module >> >> > with >> >> > the property of clients OS. >> >> >> >> You want sys.platform; see >> >> http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.platform >> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:43 AM, M Kumar <tomanis...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi Chris, >> > Thanks for quick and kind reply, but the python program runs on the >> > server, >> > sys.platform is linux only. What I want is I need to get a module, which >> > shud be exactly same as if I import os module on the client machine >> >> Um, you're not phrasing your request very clearly, so perhaps I'm not >> understanding what you're looking for, but I can tell you that >> sys.platform is certainly not Linux-only. If you'll read the docs I >> pointed you to, you'll see a table: >> System platform value >> Windows 'win32' >> <other entries snipped> >> >> Cheers, >> Chris
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:57 AM, M Kumar <tomanis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh that might be the problem, I m new to this and new to this kind of > conversations. What you said was correct. But what I am looking for is, if > one client reqst comes I need to process the data which I got from the > client, so I need to use the os module. But since my program executes on the > server os.sys.platform has the value "linux2". What I want is a module > having clients platform value for os.sys.platform. Any way to get that?> -- How are you getting the request? HTTP? XML-RPC? SOAP? Something else altogether? If you have control of both the client and the server, it'd be easiest just to have the client include a parameter specifying what platform it is in its request to the server. Cheers, Chris -- Shameless self-promotion: http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
