[Python-ideas] Error messages for shared libraries for other platform

[Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick]

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Ryan <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, the error seems to follow this pattern:
>
> ImportError: Cannot load library: loadsegments[number]: *number* cannot map
> segment from `library.so` at ...
>
> On Windows, it always says '%1 is not a valid Win32 application'

…unless you have Windows in a language that is not English.

> So, could you catch the exceptions and compare the string or perform a regex
> match or the like?

No.  Unless you wanted to hard-code all translations of this message.
Or find an API to identify this message.
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