On Dec 4, 10:46 am, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > I'm using 2.5.1. How can I tell if I'm running on windows? The > obvious answer, platform.system(), gets complicated. On the python > that comes with cygwin, it returns 'CYGWIN_NT-5.2-WOW64', but I've got > a native windows build of python where it returns 'Microsoft'. > > The real problem I'm trying to solve is whether to build a LIBPATH > environment variable with ';' or ':' delimiting the entries. On the > cygwin build, os.pathsep returns ':', which isn't really correct. If > you use that, you end up building paths that look like c:foo:c:bar. > It should be c:foo;c:bar
The Cygwin shell uses what appears to be its own pseudo-filesystem. If you open your Cygwin shell window and type echo $PATH you will see completely different results from the Windows command shell's PATH env variable, and you'll see the path sep is indeed ':'. Cygwin also seems to put drive mount points in /cygdrive/ so you will have for example "/cygdrive/c/foo:/cygdrive/c/bar" instead of "C: \foo;C:\bar". For python *outside* of Cygwin, on Windows, I assume os.path.pathsep is ';'. - zeph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
