CGIHTTPServer

[Marc Christiansen]

Tres tseaver at starbase.neosoft.com wrote:
> In article <3807B4D0.127E7261 at prescod.net>,
> Paul Prescod  <paul at prescod.net> wrote:
>>I would appreciate a comment at the top of that program that says that
>>it doesn't run on Windows. Perhaps it could even test for os.fork at the
>>beginning and crash if it isn't installed.
> 
>   if sys.platform == 'win32' :
> 	raise "CGIServer won't run on Windows!"
> 
> should work fine.

I'd prefer

  if not hasattr(os,'fork'):
  	raise "CGIServer won't run on "+sys.platform

like Paul suggested, because there are more systems that don't have fork
(e.g. Amiga :-()

Marc
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