Re: [Civil-devel]let's share the pain!

[Jan E. <ch...@in...>]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Korruptor wrote:

>The error I'm getting is:
>
>Oops, something went wrong. Dumping brain contents:
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
>    self.__startAI ( port )
>  File "/Users/kor/Development/PyGames/civil/src/gui/setup_network.py", line
>231, in __startAI
>    os.startfile ( ai )
>AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'startfile'
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Well, this means that my intelligent code thinks your box is a Windows
box. Obviously I've screwed up something here. 

Hmm, yeah, it was a silly little mistake. For those that are curious,
sys.platform.lower () on an OSX machine returns "darwin", and according to
logic, the string "win" is a substring of "darwin", which caused OSX to be
treated as Windows.

The funtion os.startfile() is a Windows-only feature.

If someone could please give me a new (and really fast one too) OSX
machine I could test things like this... :)

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