On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:57 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

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On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:39 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote:

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download('http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-2.0.1-win32-'+uname()[4])+'.zip')

Nothing personal, but that code is awful.

You're right, it's buggy because I didn't test it. Superfluous close parenthesis there. But my point is that the architecture is right there in the name, so you can save yourself the trouble and just use what comes from uname directly.

I write code for aliens. They might be confused that x86 < x64.

Who cares? You're building up a URL and going and downloading it. The user needn't even be aware of it. You're actually writing code for code, here. ChrisA