Feature Requests item #1531505, was opened at 2006-07-30 20:38 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=355470&aid=1531505&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Python Library Group: Python 2.6 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Josiah Carlson (josiahcarlson) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: distutils 'register' command and windows home directories Initial Comment: The current version of the Distutils 'register' command does not support Windows 2k or XP home directories, as it checks for 'HOME' in os.environ . This is suffient for posix platforms, but for Windows 2k and XP, generally 'home directories' are specified via the environment variable 'USERPROFILE', or can be constructed from 'HOMEDRIVE' and 'HOMEPATH'. A simple fix would be to create two functions: has_home() and get_home(), whose purposes are to determine whether a home directory exists for the current platform, and to get the home directory for the current platform, respectively. A sample implementation of both functions is as follows (replace the leading commas with spaces). keys = ['HOME', 'USERPROFILE'] def has_home(): ,,,,for i in keys: ,,,,,,,,if i in os.environ: ,,,,,,,,,,,,return 1 ,,,,return 0 def get_home(): ,,,,for i in keys: ,,,,,,,,if i in os.environ: ,,,,,,,,,,,,return os.environ[i] Once those definitions are made, then the two relevant portions of distutils.command.register.register.set_metadata() can be updated to use these two functions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=355470&aid=1531505&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com