pyosal

Summary

pyosal is an Operating System Abstraction Layer written in Python. It contains various functions help write cross-platform python code.

see doc/pyosal_api.md or the website above for more information about these functions.

Over time, I will be searching through my projects looking for code like:

if  pyosal.os_name == 'ubuntu':
    do_some_thing_ubu()
elif  pyosal.os_name == 'msys2':
    do_some_thing_msys2()

It might be possible that do_some_thing() is a viable OSAL function to be added to pyosal.

A summary of the functions available are:

Name	Type	Description
`os_name`	property	get OS name/tag
`os_version`	property	get OS version info
`python_version`	property	get python version info
`root_dir`	property	get path for root directory
`root_dir_msys2`	property	get root directory for msys2 shells
`userid`	property	get current userid
`hostname`	property	get current PC's hostname
`os_valid`	property	get list of recognized valid OS names
`curr_repo_dir`	property	current repo directory converted to posix
`curr_repo_name`	property	current repo name
`run_cmd_timeout`	function	run a command in a subprocess, terminate after a timeout
`run_cmd`	function	run a command in a subprocess
`stdout_flush`	function	flush for stdout
`stderr_flush`	function	flush for stderr
`xlat_to_win`	function	convert a path to windows i.e. backslashes
`xlat_to_posix`	function	convert a path to posix i.e. forward slashes
`xlat_dir_to_relative`	function	convert a path to relative to home
`abort`	function	abort the current script

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