On 9/17/2011 2:01 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote:
I have been testing my Python application on the just-released developer preview of Windows 8 and have noted an error: the application does not create an app folder in the user's "application data" directory. This causes the app to crash on startup. Manually creating the directory solves the problem. Since the app uses an os.mkdir() call to create the directory, and since the app runs fine on Windows 7, my guess is that the bug lies somewhere in the interaction between Python (I'm using ActivePython 2.7) and Windows.
We need more that guesses to act. I think is premature to call this a 'Python bug'.
Here's the relevant code: #make preferences directory if it does not exist def makePrefsDir(self): self.appdir = os.path.join(os.path.join(os.environ['APPDATA'], 'MyApp')) if not os.path.exists(self.appdir): os.mkdir(self.appdir) I realize that this developer preview of Windows is still at somewhere between alpha- and beta-level, and it's possible things will get better. Should I wait to report this as a bug until Windows 8 is released, or do the Python developers test Python on pre-release versions of Windows?
3 days ago (Sept 14) someone asked about 'Windows 8 support' on pydev list. The answers were 1) 2.7 and 3.2 appear to run fine on the Dev release (but there was no report of test suite results); 2) Python directly uses so little of the Win interface that problems are not anticipated; 3) applications might have to make Win 8 specific adjustments and should test before the release.
Of course, if MS accidentally changes thinly wrapped system calls such as os.environ, .exists, and .makedir, there will be a problem but that is their bug. My impression is that they are not intentionally breaking such things.
I anticipate 3.3 and some future 2.7.z will be officially supported (and tested) on Win 8.
-- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
