having worked on some other things for a while i didn't put much emphasis on working on this until i had the other bugs taken care of.
so now back into it we can go... :) what i came up with (sorry, i hate yet another not invented here thing, but this is just where i ended up after some pondering). simply put. if i'm running on a computer and i don't easily know why kind of computer how can i answer this in a quick way without getting overly complicated that also will cover most of the easy cases? i came up with this: comments? additions? clarifications? i don't have a windows system to test this on, does it work? thanks :) ===== import re import tempfile def sysprobe (): sysprobetmp = tempfile.gettempdir() print ("Temp directory : -->" + sysprobetmp + "<--\n") result = re.search("^/(tmp)|(var)|(usr)|(opt)|(home)", sysprobetmp) try: print ("Result : -->" + result.group(0) + "<--\n") return ("posix") except: pass result = re.search("^[A-Za-z]:", sysprobetmp) try: print ("Result : -->" + result.group(0) + "<--\n") return ("windows") except: pass return ("unknown") def main (): print (sysprobe()) if __name__ == "__main__": main() ===== on my system i get: ===== (env) me@ant(39)~/src/salsa/bits/sysprobe$ python3 sysprobe.py Temp directory : -->/tmp<-- Result : -->/tmp<-- posix ===== songbird -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list