[Python-Dev] UUID module (original) (raw)

Ka-Ping Yee python-dev at zesty.ca
Mon Jun 12 10:49:45 CEST 2006

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Giovanni Bajo wrote:

Some comments on the code:

> for dir in ['', r'c:\windows\system32', r'c:\winnt\system32']: Can we get rid of these absolute paths? Something like this should suffice: >>> from ctypes import * >>> buf = createstringbuffer(4096) >>> windll.kernel32.GetSystemDirectoryA(buf, 4096) 17 >>> buf.value.decode("mbcs") u'C:\WINNT\system32'

I'd like to, but i don't want to use a method for finding the system directory that depends on ctypes. Is there a more general way?

> for function in functions: > try: > node = function() > except: > continue

This also hides typos and whatnot.

The intended semantics of getnode() are that it cannot fail. The individual *_getnode() functions do throw exceptions if something goes wrong, and so they can be tested individually on platforms where they are expected to work.

-- ?!ng

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