On 6-jun-2006, at 18:56, Michael Glassford wrote:
> >>> What's the right way to detect within the application whether its >>> running on an Intel or a PowerPC Mac? I can figure out a way on >>> my own >>> (such as looking at sys.byteorder), but I wonder if there's an >>> "official" way. >> >> The right way to detect is to not detect at all. > > I realize that's generally preferable, but... > >> Otherwise, it depends on what reason you're doing it. > > I'm experimenting with getting Psyco working in the application, and > obviously only want to enable it if I'm running on an Intel > machine. It > may turn out to do this check on its own; at the moment I can't tell, > because enabling it automatically crashes my application on both Intel > and PowerPC Macs. Even here I wouldn't test for the architecture but would just import psyco and act on the success or failure of that. Ronald _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
