Chris Angelico wrote: > songbird wrote: ... >> no win64? > > The value "win32" means Windows (or, more technically, "Windows NT > family", as opposed to Win95/Win98 - but since Win XP, that's the only > type of Windows there is). If you actually care about whether it's a > 32-bit or 64-bit OS, you can look at sys.maxsize.
i'm not sure what system my code will actually run on or not. i got rid of my old hardware as part of a cleanup so i can't test things like that anymore without some kind of emulator or other kind people. at present i just want to know what kind of system i am running on so i can put my configuration file and saved games in the correct places. if i can't determine what kind of system i am running on then i won't run at all (instead of risking creating a directory or file on a system that doesn't have such ways of doing that - i really don't know what people may attempt after all). >> no arm(s)? > > That's a CPU architecture. What OS would you be running on your ARM? > If it's Windows, "win32". If it's Linux, "linux". Etc. ok. since i never have such things to try i don't always know what they run or how it looks to a python3 program. anyways, one thing i do like about an actual probe of the temporary kind is that i can answer the question of: "Do I have temporary directory and file creation permissions on this system or not?" a more accurate answer for any longer term storage would tell me if i have more permanent directory and file creation permissions or not, but my program doesn't require those since it will run without a configuration file or any saved games. songbird -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
