Finding out the OS distribution name

[Markus Stenberg]

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at lemburg.com> writes:
> Is there a way to find out the name of the OS distribution a script is
> running on ?

Short answer: No.

> E.g. I'd like a function that returns 'Redhat6.1'/'SuSE6.2' or
> 'Win95'/'Win98'/'WinNT' or 'MacOS8'/'MacOS9' etc.

Longer answer: It is possible to guess, but not trivially [by either
hugging filesystem tightly, or by TCP/IP fingerprinting]. And AFAIK there
isn't such a module available for Python, anyhow.

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> Marc-Andre Lemburg
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-Markus

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