On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 05:40:43PM -0400, Aquil H. Abdullah wrote: > You've hit the proverbial nail with the hammer. The problem is that my > application needs to run under both the Linux and Windows OSs, so while I > would love to use a nice sh, csh, or bash shell script. My hands are tied > because Windows does not provide such wonderful shells.
*Provides*, no... neither does it provide Python, for what that's worth. But you can certainly get it (bash): http://win-bash.sourceforge.net/ I suppose it's not worth installing just for this purpose though... But you can provide with your application a DoS batch file that does exactly the same thing (in addition to a shell script). The user would quite intuitively use whichever were appropriate, or follow your provided directions otherwise. Or, the equivalent in (hopefully OS-agnostic) Python: import os, sys # I believe this gets the name of the root in all major OSes def root_dir(path): if os.path.dirname(path) == path: return path return (root_dir(os.path.dirname(path))) appname = <name of your python script> root = root_dir(os.getcwd()) install_path = os.path.join(root, "usr") bin_path = os.path.join(install_path, "bin") os.environ["PATH"] = bin_path + os.pathsep + os.environ["PATH"] python_path = os.path.join(bin_path, "python") args = sys.argv[1:] args.insert(0, os.path.join(bin_path, appname)) args.insert(0, python_path) args.insert(0, python_path) os.execv(python_path, args)
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