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[Monu Agrawal]

Hi I want to know whether the program is being run on windows or on
Xnix. Is there any variable or method which tells me that it's windows?

 

[Juho Schultz]

Hi I want to know whether the program is being run on windows or on
Xnix. Is there any variable or method which tells me that it's windows?

os.name - the value is "posix" for Linux/Unix, "nt" or "ce" for Windows,
and so on...

 

[Mikael Olofsson]

Hi I want to know whether the program is being run on windows or on
Xnix. Is there any variable or method which tells me that it's windows?

Will this help?
'win32'

There is also the platform module, that can give you a lot more
information about the your platform. Try help(platform).

/MiO

 

[Maurice LING]

Will this help?

'win32'

There is also the platform module, that can give you a lot more
information about the your platform. Try help(platform).

/MiO

Adding onto this (which may be of need), but if this seems to be a
hijack, my apologies......

Is there a way of getting the path to the site-packages directory?
Considering that Mac OSX with Fink installs python libraries in
/sw/lib/python<version>, Mac OSX itself has python libraries in
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/<version>/lib, etc
etc...

maurice

 

[Maurice LING]

Will this help?

'win32'

There is also the platform module, that can give you a lot more
information about the your platform. Try help(platform).

/MiO

Adding onto this (which may be of need), but if this seems to be a
hijack, my apologies......

Is there a way of getting the path to the site-packages directory?
Considering that Mac OSX with Fink installs python libraries in
/sw/lib/python<version>, Mac OSX itself has python libraries in
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/<version>/lib, etc
etc...

maurice

 

[Mike Meyer]

Is there a way of getting the path to the site-packages directory?

.... if os.path.split(dir)[-1] == 'site-packages':
.... print dir
....
/usr/opt/lib/python2.4/site-packages
But there's seldom a reason to want this.

Considering that Mac OSX with Fink installs python libraries in
/sw/lib/python<version>, Mac OSX itself has python libraries in
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/<version>/lib, etc
etc...

And darwinportgs puts them in
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/<Version>/lib/...
but includes /opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages in sys.path.

<mike