portable way of locating an executable (like which)
Ramchandra Apte
maniandram01 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 23:55:46 EDT 2012
On Friday, 21 September 2012 02:37:01 UTC+5:30, gelonida wrote:
> I'd like to implement the equivalent functionality of the unix command
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> /usr/bin/which
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> The function should work under Linux and under windows.
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> Did anybody already implement such a function.
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> If not, is there a portable way of splitting the environment variable PATH?
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> Thanks for any sugestions
shutil.which does this in Python 3.3: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/shutil.html#shutil.which
You can copy the code to support older Python versions.
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