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

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Tue Mar 5 01:39:40 CET 2013

On 1 Mar 2013, at 18:38, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

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 <if_ _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).

It has been used incorrectly in a few places in the Python standard library - Windows support code that would work correctly on IronPython is skipped because os.name is not 'nt' on IronPython. That was the case in the past anyway. It's quite some time since I've used IronPython now.

Michael

Regards

Antoine.

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