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 = create_string_buffer(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 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
