Finding out the OS distribution name

[Gordon McMillan]

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

Windows NT:
 os.environ['OS'] yields "Windows_NT"
 os.environ['ComSpec'] yields the path to cmd.exe

In the registry, I find 
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion 
has items "CurrentVersion" ("4.0") and "CSDVersion" 
("Service Pack 4")

The ver command gets you "Windows NT Version 4.0".

- Gordon