From a94a19f2f2ec6a65b7e0ecdbf4c7eca14a035d7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martyn Gigg <martyn.gigg@stfc.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:23:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add environment module to wrap around platform Refs #6007
Gives more readable access to things like checking for windows/linux/mac
etc
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.../mantid/kernel/environment.py | 50 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 50 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Code/Mantid/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/environment.py
diff --git a/Code/Mantid/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/environment.py b/Code/Mantid/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/environment.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ca5f87c3c42
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+++ b/Code/Mantid/Framework/PythonInterface/mantid/kernel/environment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+"""
+ Defines a set functions for interrogating the current enviroment.
+
+ The standard platform module doesn't have simple things like is_windows(),
+ is_linux(). The set of functions defined here should make it clearer what is going
+ on when they are used.
+"""
+import platform as _platform
+import sys as _sys
+
+def is_windows():
+ """
+ Returns True if the current platform is Windows (regardless of version/32- or 64-bit etc)
+ """
+ return _sys.platform == "win32"
+
+def is_mac():
+ """
+ Returns True if the current platform is Mac (regardless of version/32- or 64-bit etc)
+ """
+ return _sys.platform == "darwin"
+
+def is_linux():
+ """
+ Returns True if the current platform is OS X (regardless of version/32- or 64-bit etc)
+ Variant on is_apple
+ """
+ return _sys.platform.startswith("linux")
+
+def is_32bit():
+ """
+ Returns True if the current platform is 32-bit
+ """
+ if is_mac():
+ # See Python documentation on platform module for why this is different
+ return _sys.maxsize == 2**31 - 1 # Max size of integer
+ else:
+ bits = _platform.architecture()[0]
+ return bits == '32bit'
+
+def is_64bit():
+ """
+ Returns True if the current platform is 64-bit
+ """
+ if is_mac():
+ # See Python documentation on platform module for why this is different
+ return _sys.maxsize > 2**32
+ else:
+ bits = _platform.architecture()[0]
+ return bits == '64bit'
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