[Rd] Robust, platform independent method to check for python

[Romain Francois]

I actually have the same question, about ant. I assume this would be 
what the SystemRequirements field in a package DESCRIPTION is for, but 
at the moment it seems unused. Is there a plan about this ?

Romain

On 06/27/2009 05:44 PM, Carlos J. Gil Bellosta wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been unsuccessfully struggling for a programmatical method to
> find out whether and where Python is installed.
>
> The reason is that I am developing a package that depends on python.
>
> On UNIX/UNIX-like systems I can quite safely assume that python is
> directly callable via system if installed.
>
> My main problems is Windows, though...
>
> Has anybody faced this problem before?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Carlos J. Gil Bellosta
> http://www.datanalytics.com
>    

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