best macro to detect the operating system

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Nice job @EasyTrieve... one note about the "g_exportedScripts", it expects a string list which defines the python functions within your .py-file that are made executable from within LibreOffice. If there is no more than 1 function name in the string list, it should for some reason end with a comma, e.g.:

g_exportedScripts = macro1,

for 2 or more exported functions:

g_exportedScripts = macro1, macro2

@librebel, Thanks. Humm? It works for me without the comma. Figured w/ python's zest for brevity, it was worth a try. Can't find official documentation on g_exportedScripts. But from DuckDuckGo g_exportedScripts I can see that others use it w/ a comma. Only thing I can figure is it might need a comma in older or newer versions. my: python --version gives "2.7.9". What's your version?

The comma at the end of one item makes it a tuple. See documentation.

@Ratslinger now it make sense .. however when i put a single method name inside tuple brackets () it still requires the extra comma. Perhaps it must be a 2-tuple at the least, where the second element may be empty... @EasyTrieve my Python version is 3.5.2 .. but i also have 2.7 installed from before :)

@Ratslinger, thanks, that's interesting. @librebel, the 'documentation' Ratslinger mentions says this: "Note that it is actually the comma which makes a tuple, not the parentheses." ...And looks like I've got some more updating to do.

OSTYPE and MACHTYPE on Mint 18 show as MACHTYPE=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, OSTYPE=linux-gnu.

use set | less to list.

Ubuntu 16.04:

MACHTYPE=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

OSTYPE=linux-gnu

Anybody help with the OSX results?

@Pansmanser Did you try the basic/Python solution presented by @librebel ( original suggestion by @karolus )? On my Mint system it returns Linux. Don't have others to test, but have no reason to believe it won't work.

Thanks, @Ratslinger - I'm trying the @librebel/@karolus solution, as shown above. Meanwhile, environ("MACHTYPE") and environ("OSTYPE") return null strings on my sys and are not present when I list environment variables.

@Pansmanser Running set | less using terminal will only display the first page initially. At the : prompt did you press enter or down arrow for more entries? It can be a long list which is the reason to display 'less'.

@Ratslinger Thanks for that. Yes, set | less (how do you do that highlighting?) throws up MACHTYPE and OSTYPE. However they are still not detected by environ(). Any fix for that?

Let's stick with Python script. Script name should be get_os.py. Contents should be (with comma at end):

#!/usr/bin/env python3
def get_OS( ):
   import sys
   return sys.platform
g_exportedScripts = get_OS,

placed in this directory: /home/robert/.config/libreoffice/4/user/Scripts/python

Basic sub code:

Sub PrintMyOS
    Dim oScriptProvider, oScript
    Dim aParams(), aOutParamIndex(), aOutParam()
    oScriptProvider = ThisComponent.getScriptProvider()
    oScript = oScriptProvider.getScript( "vnd.sun.star.script:get_os.py$get_OS?language=Python&location=user" )
    get_sys_platform = oScript.invoke( aParams(), aOutParamIndex(), aOutParam() )
    Print get_sys_platform
End Sub

Run the sub & you should get result.

No, unfortunately not the result I want. Both routines present and correct (paste & copied from your code, as previously from librebel). Throwing up same exception error at same line.