Test on Windows

[pythoninthegrass]

Either in WSL (preferred) or bare metal, most of the documentation needs QA on Windows 10/11 boxes.

Can open a separate issue to isolate the item (e.g., Terraform on WSL, Windows 11 vs. TF bare metal Windows 11).

[pythoninthegrass]

For Hacktoberfest participants, PRs have to be submitted starting October 1st. I'll hold off on approval/merging until October 1st so you get credit.

EDIT
To make sure you get credit, please fork the repo and make changes locally. Then submit a PR on October 1st. Out of my hands 🙌

[PARTHIB-DEB]

Suggesting solutions for the Multiple OS support problem #16

Hey I am Parthib , here are 2 solution from mine

TOX

• It's a Python library that is used to make a python project suitable accross all of its different versions and all types os. It focuses the problem "But it runs on my machine" , specially for Python. You can create a Tox file by tox.ini or pyproject.toml or setup.cfg. Although , I would suggest tox.ini is the best. If you have used pytest before , then you will get a similarity in making the tox.ini config file. Here is a demo description of tox.ini

[tox]
envlist = py38, py39, py310

[testenv]
deps = 
    pytest
commands = 
    pytest

[testenv:windows]
platform = win32
deps = 
    pytest
commands = 
    pytest

[testenv:linux]
platform = linux
deps = 
    pytest
commands = 
    pytest

[testenv:mac]
platform = darwin
deps = 
    pytest
commands = 
    pytest

As you can see it not only supports different python versions , but different OS and which command will be stacked in each of them. In short , you can consider it similar to makefile

PLATFORM

• It's a Python library that is directly maintained by PSF. By implementing this library , you can hardcode functionalities for each OS inside a python code. Unlike TOX , you don't have to make a seperate config file. But I will suggest if you want to strongly handle different OS, use TOX and PLATFORM as a team.
  Here is a demo of the duo -

# setup_env.py

import platform
import os

def set_os_env():
    os_name = platform.system().lower()
    if os_name.startswith('win'):
        os.environ['TOX_ENV_NAME'] = 'windows'
    elif os_name.startswith('linux'):
        os.environ['TOX_ENV_NAME'] = 'linux'
    elif os_name.startswith('darwin'):
        os.environ['TOX_ENV_NAME'] = 'mac'

if __name__ == "__main__":
    set_os_env()

[tox]
envlist = py38, py39, py310

[testenv]
deps = 
    pytest
commands = 
    python setup_env.py
    pytest

[testenv:windows]
platform = win32
setenv =
    TOX_ENV_NAME = windows
deps = 
    pytest
commands = 
    pytest

[testenv:linux]
platform = linux
setenv =
    TOX_ENV_NAME = linux
deps = 
    pytest
commands = 
    pytest

[testenv:mac]
platform = darwin
setenv =
    TOX_ENV_NAME = mac
deps = 
    pytest
commands = 
    pytest

Here you can see , based on the each OS 'TOX_ENV_NAME' environment variable got different values and TOX is supervising everything

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