Stef Mientki wrote:
hello,
I would like to make my programs available under the "standard" OS's,
like Windows, Linux (,Mac)
One of the problems I encounter, is launching of files through their
file associates (probably a windows only terminology ;-)
Now I can detect the OS, but only the main OS and not e.g. Ubuntu /
Gnome or whatever I've to detect.
Through trial and error I found a working mechanism under Ubuntu, but as
I have to specify "gnome", I doubt this will work under other Linux
systems.
any good solutions available ?
thanks,
Stef Mientki
import subprocess
CHM = '../numpy.chm'
# works under Ubuntu
subprocess.Popen( "gnome-open " + CHM , shell = True )
# doesn't work under Ubuntu
# (the list should be converted to a number of arguments,
#but that doesn't seem to work under Ubuntu.
subprocess.Popen( [ "gnome-open" , CHM] ,shell = True )
# works under Windows
subprocess.Popen( CHM , shell = True )
# works better under windows
win32help.HtmlHelp ( Win32_Viewer,
str(CHM),
win32help.HH_DISPLAY_INDEX,
str ( keyword ) )
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General algorithm which I have used for years.
Convert to specific syntax of compiler/interpreter/whatever...
Get OS from an OS call Python has platform for that
Get the version Python has uname for that
Get the version Linux has uname -a for that
Pick your OS you use most and put that test first
if it fails, try 2nd
it it fails, try 3rd
.
.
each try uses the files suited to OS attempted
FYI
import platform
help(platform)
(read)
os_is= platform.system()
test for os_is == which
platform.dist() check the doc - not sure this one does anything useful
platform.uname() check the doc - Test it on Ubuntu, may be useful
Steve
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