cjdns/node_build/FindPython2.js

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var nThen = require('nthen');
var Spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
var Fs = require('fs');

var PYTHONS = ["python", "python2", "python2.7", "python2.6", "python2.5"];

var find = module.exports.find = function (tempFile, callback) {
    var nt = nThen(function (waitFor) {
        Fs.writeFile(tempFile,
                     "import sys; exit(sys.version_info[0] != 2);",
                     waitFor(function (err) { if (err) { throw err; } }));
    }).nThen;
    PYTHONS.forEach(function (python) {
        nt = nt(function (waitFor) {
            console.log("testing python " + python);
            var py = Spawn(python, [tempFile]);
            py.on('close', waitFor(function(ret) {
                if (ret === 0) {
                    callback(undefined, python);
                    waitFor.abort();
                }
            }));
            py.on('error', waitFor(function (err) {
                if (err !== 'ENOENT') { console.log('error starting python ' + err); }
            }));
            // Don't worry about errors, try the next.
        }).nThen;
    });
    nt(function (waitFor) {
        callback(new Error("no sutible python2 executable found"));
    });
};