[Python-Dev] UUID module

Mon Jun 12 10:49:45 CEST 2006

On 2006年6月11日, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> Some comments on the code:
>> > for dir in ['', r'c:\windows\system32', r'c:\winnt\system32']:
>> Can we get rid of these absolute paths? Something like this should suffice:
>> >>> from ctypes import *
> >>> buf = create_string_buffer(4096)
> >>> windll.kernel32.GetSystemDirectoryA(buf, 4096)
> 17
> >>> buf.value.decode("mbcs")
> u'C:\\WINNT\\system32'

I'd like to, but i don't want to use a method for finding the system
directory that depends on ctypes. Is there a more general way?
> > for function in functions:
> > try:
> > _node = function()
> > except:
> > continue
>> This also hides typos and whatnot.

The intended semantics of getnode() are that it cannot fail.
The individual *_getnode() functions do throw exceptions if
something goes wrong, and so they can be tested individually
on platforms where they are expected to work.
-- ?!ng