detection of windows command style wip

expertmm.py

@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ import copy
 
 verbose_enable = False
 
-#os_name = "GNU/Linux"
+os_name = "GNU/Linux"
-#if os.sep=="\\":
+if os.sep=="\\":
-#    os_name = "windows"
+    os_name = "windows"
-#    print("Windows detected")
+    print("Windows detected")
+    #TODO: deprecate os_name--still needed for detecting whether to use squote in singleimage.py (when not Windows, squote is "'" otherwise "")
 
 #formerly pcttext:
 #uppercase_chars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"

pythoninfo.py

@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ from expertmm import *
 
 python_exe_path = "python"
 
-if os_name=="windows":
+#if os_name=="windows":
-    try:
+try:
     alt_path = "C:\\python27\python.exe"
     if os.path.isfile(alt_path):
         python_exe_path = alt_path
     #else may be in path--assume installer worked
-    except:
+except:
     pass  # do nothing