John Skaller writes:
1) does the OS support symbolic or hard links?
import os hasattr(os, "link") hasattr(os, "symlink")
2) what information is in fstat? 3) does the OS supply big/little endian Unicode files? 4) What operating system is it? [This is a hard question] 5) is os.system available?
hasattr(os, "system")
6) What is the size of a Python 'integer' 'float'? 7) What is the eol character sequence?
I thought this was in there, but can't recall where.
8) is there a 'drive' prefix? 9) Can you delete an open file (Yes under Unix, No under NT) 10) Is there a stderr and/or stdlog file 11) Is there a console at all? 12) Is there a compiler available? 13) Is this J or C Python?
# true for JPython sys.platform[:4] == "java"
It may be the proper place for the answer is not in sys.config, but in os. But the os module can compute the answers from sys.config.
For most of this, probably so. Recall also that Guido & others recommend "feature tests" to determine the availability of functionality rather than having a separate flag to indicate availability. There are many ways in which this is more reliable and maintainable, though what we're currently describing as sysconfig remains pertinant. I would expect sysconfig to be used mostly by things like distutils and not by typical programs. Hence, it would be good for os to not import it. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org> Corporation for National Research Initiatives 1895 Preston White Dr. Reston, VA 20191