On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016, 16:13 Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> wrote: >> >> On 4/8/2016 3:28 PM, Eric Snow wrote: >> >> All this matters because it impacts the value returned from >> __ospath__(). Should it return the string representation of the path >> for the current OS or some standardized representation? I'd expect >> the former. However, if that is the expectation then something like >> pathlib.PureWindowsPath will give you the wrong thing if your current >> OS is linux. pathlib.PureWindowsPath.__ospath__() would have to fail >> or first internally convert to pathlib.PurePosixPath? >> >> Now that Windows 10++ will run Ubuntu apps, will Python be able to tell >> the difference for when it should return Windows-format paths and >> Posix-format paths? > > > All the bits of code in Python accept / as a separator on Windows so it > doesn't matter (but Ubuntu on Windows is Linux, so it will be / just like > any other Linux install).
Technically it isn't linux. :) It's the Ubuntu user-space using the linux syscalls (like normal), and those syscalls are implemented as light wrappers around the Windows kernel. They even implemented fork. On Windows. There's no linux kernel involved. > >> >> (I'm sure the answer is yes, the Python-for-Ubuntu running on Windows >> would do the latter, and the Python-for-Windows would do the former. >> Although, it is not clear what sys.platform will return, yet...) > > > It should return Linux. >From screenshots it looks like lsb_release -a returns the normal Ubuntu info [1] and uname -a says linux (don't know if that will change). [2] So yeah, sys.platform should return Linux. -eric [1] https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows/ [2] https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/30/ubuntu-on-windows-the-ubuntu-userspace-for-windows-developers/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
