sys.platform details...

[Bas van der Vlies]

In article <m3r9cdm6w4.fsf at devel.no.rwd.dinet>,
	rob at hooft.net (Rob W. W. Hooft) writes:
> 
> schol[51]:ccd>python
> Python 1.5.2b1 (#4, Jan 14 1999, 12:05:48)  [GCC egcs-2.90.21 971202 (egc on irix5
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>>> import sys
>>>> sys.platform
> 'irix5'
>>>> ^D
> schol[52]:ccd>uname -a
> IRIX schol 6.3 12161207 IP32

Rob,

 The following code works.

 import os

   platform = os.uname()
   print platform

		Hope This helps


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