Re: portable way of locating an executable (like which)

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Date	2012-09-22 20:55 -0700
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Subject	Re: portable way of locating an executable (like which)
From	Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com>
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On Friday, 21 September 2012 02:37:01 UTC+5:30, gelonida  wrote:
> I'd like to implement the equivalent functionality of the unix command
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> /usr/bin/which
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> The function should work under Linux and under windows.
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> Did anybody already implement such a function.
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> If not, is there a portable way of splitting the environment variable PATH?
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> Thanks for any sugestions

shutil.which does this in Python 3.3: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/shutil.html#shutil.which
You can copy the code to support older Python versions.

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portable way of locating an executable (like which) Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> - 2012-09-20 23:06 +0200
  Re: portable way of locating an executable (like which) Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2012-09-21 00:59 +0100
    Re: portable way of locating an executable (like which) Tarek Ziadé <tarek@ziade.org> - 2012-09-21 10:12 +0200
  Re: portable way of locating an executable (like which) Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-22 20:55 -0700
  Re: portable way of locating an executable (like which) Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-22 20:55 -0700

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