[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit at PyCon: Agenda (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Mar 1 19:38:03 CET 2013

On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:32:23 -0500 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

>On the other hand in some ways Jython is sort of like Python on a >weird virtual OS that lets the real OS bleed through some. This may >still need to be checked in that way (there's are still checks of os.name == 'nt'> right?) Yeah, but that all ooooold code ;)

Hmm, what do you mean? os.name == 'nt' is still the proper way to test that we're running on a Windows system (more accurately, over the Windows API).

Regards

Antoine.

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