[IronPython] Silverlight, cannot import os module?
Michael Foord
fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Thu Apr 17 18:34:39 CEST 2008
Dan Eloff wrote:
> Actually, asside from os.linesep, (which could be easily replaced) I
> don't see anything that I would use,
I don't see why you would need linesep as you have no access to the
filesystem.
> it was primarily because I was
> trying to get linecache working in silverlight, but I gave up on that
> and used (yours? fuzzymans?) traceback module without linecache. It'd
> be nice to have os with almost no features for modules that import it,
> so that you can use their non-os-using parts, but I can't think of one
> real life example of a module like that.
>
>
Creating a stub module for this purpose should be easy.
Michael
> -Dan
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Michael Foord
> <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Dan Eloff wrote:
>> > I've added os.py and ntpath.py to my .xap, but the trouble is os uses
>> > sys.builtin_module_names to detect platform, and there is no platform
>> > specific module in there for silverlight.
>> >
>> > Maybe it is os.py (using CPython 2.5 version) that needs to be changed
>> > to support a silverlight platform? Or to stop throwing when no
>> > platform detected?
>> >
>> > Or maybe IronPython should have a minimal or empty nt builtin module
>> > for silverlight, since probably that's the closest to the desired
>> > behavior.
>> >
>> > Surely somebody else has come across this? I'm going to hack os.py for
>> > now to allow me to continue past this.
>> >
>>
>> Out of interest - what features of os do you want to use?
>>
>> You could post a bug on the Python tracker that os.py fails to import on
>> platforms with no 'platform' (and mention that it is in SIlverlight). A
>> patch would be good too.
>>
>> Michael Foord
>> http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > -Dan
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