[Python-Dev] Recommended way to tell platform (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Sat Aug 7 20:40:46 CEST 2004

Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> writes:

OTOH, I have no idea when or why sys.platform == "win32" would give a different result than os.name == "nt".

Probably never, but os.name == 'posix' covers a huge variety of sins, so which one you test affects the 'feel' of the code somewhat.

Cheers, mwh

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