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[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit at PyCon: Agenda

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Mar 1 19:38:03 CET 2013 
On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:32:23 -0500
Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> 
> >On the other hand in some ways Jython is sort of like Python on a
> >weird virtual OS that lets the real OS bleed through some. This may
> >still need to be checked in that way (there's are still checks of <if
> >os.name == 'nt'> right?)
> 
> Yeah, but that all ooooold code ;)

Hmm, what do you mean? `os.name == 'nt'` is still the proper way to
test that we're running on a Windows system (more accurately, over the
Windows API).

Regards

Antoine.
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