In message <mailman.1166.1244187013.8015.python-l...@python.org>, Dave Angel wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> In message <mailman.1158.1244174209.8015.python-l...@python.org>, Dave >> Angel wrote: >> >>> Rather than editing the source files at install time, consider just >>> using an environment variable in your testing environment, which would >>> be missing in production environment. >>> >> >> I'd still need to define that environment variable in a wrapper script, >> which means editing that script at install time ... back to square one >> ... >> > No, the whole point is it's an environment variable which is *missing" > in production environment. Make sure you make it an obscure name, like > set MyProductName_TestingMode=1 > > So the way you know you're in a production environment is that you do > not have such an environment variable. Sounds like a very roundabout solution to the wrong problem. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list