Conditional Compilation for bytecode?

[Don]

I have some code that needs to run on Win32 and IRIX.

I thought I read somewhere that python had a sort of conditional
compilation that would generate different .pyc files depending on the
directives in the .py file.

i.e.
#ifdef WIN32
CreateProcess(...)
#else UNIX
fork()
#endif

But I can't seem to find this anywhere.  Do I need to do this?

if sys.platform = 'Win32':
   CreateProcess(...)
else:
   fork()

Does the byte code compiler optimize this so it doesn't check every
time?


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