An uname - like call?

[Stewart Wilson]

Szilveszter Juhos wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 19 May 1999, Andrew Csillag wrote:
> 
> > combination of sys.copyright (the second line), sys.platform (the linux2
> 
> Thanks! Furthermore os.uname() similarly good -as others wrote-, simply
> I was careless again in documentation reading :-/

os.uname() is probably _better_.  sys.platform() give the platform for
which python was compiled, not the platform on which it is running.
(No -- they don't have to be the same).

Cheers,
--Stewart

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