Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Darren Dale enlightened us with: >> I would like to test that latex is installed on a windows, mac or linux >> machine. What is the best way to do this? This should work: >> >> if os.system('latex -v'): >> print 'please install latex' > > The downside is that you can only use this to test by executing. > Perhaps it would be better to make a function that can search the PATH > environment variable in a cross-platform way. Also make sure you > include any platform-specific executable postfixes like Window's > ".exe".
I guess that would work. I was hoping there was a more elegant, batteries included way to do it. By the way, great Zappa quote. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list