Christian Heimes added the comment: 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(): ... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16353> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com