Message 174930 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

I've tested confstr("CS_PATH") on Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, HP-UX and BSD. It works and the path to sh is always included.

Taras: You don't have to perform the platform inside the get_shell() function. I suggest that you define the function depending on the value of name.

if name == "posix": def get_shell(): ... elif name in {"nt", "ce"}: def get_shell(): ...