Check python version in restricted python

1

Is it possible to check python version from restricted python?

In 'normal view', I could do something like:

    if six.PY3: 
        something
    else:
        somethingelse
2

Maybe you can have some luck with something like:

try:
    unicode
    somethingelse
except NameError:
    something

or:

if isinstance(u"", str):
    something
else:
    somethingelse
3

You could make a view that will return the python version and check that.

One question remains: why do you need this? There might be a better route to solving your problem.

4

I have some themingfragments that are both used on 5.2 with Python3.

With python 3 I can do

keyword = data['keyword']
return self.context.portal_catalog(Subject=keyword, etc)

while on 'the old', I need to do

keyword.encode('ascii') (or something similar)

In 'normal python', all my checks for encoding etc is done with six, but in restricted python I can not import six

5

That seems to work, and probably adresses my problem 'better than my python check'.

Thanks

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