On Apr 19, 2:28 am, tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote: > Richard Shea <shearich...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On a *nix box this is a reasonable bit of Python : > > > cmd = "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i %s %s@%s '%s' > %s" % (key, > > user, dns, "echo CONNECTION READY", tmp_file) > > result = os.system(cmd) > > > ... on a Windows box it will fail because 'ssh' isn't part of Windows. > > ssh isn't guaranteed to be part of Unix/Linux systems surely. > > -- > Chris Green
Ha ! Ok I didn't know that (or more to the point hadn't really thought about it). But anyway my more general point was looking for a design pattern which would accommodate the use of system utilities across multiple platforms which has sufficiently similar functionality that they were functionally identical but which would have to be invoked in different ways -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
