How to differentiate Win98 from NT ?

[Pieter Claerhout]

Try Marc's platform.py module. Here is the URL:

http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/platform.py

Pieter

-----Original Message-----
From: Svante Kleist [mailto:Svante.Kleist at edt.ericsson.se]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 8:04 AM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: How to differentiate Win98 from NT ?



Dear Pythonists,

"os.name" says "nt" for both Windows NT and Windows 98.

In order to differentiate between the two,
I could search for the existence of "cmd.exe",
but that feels rather clumsy. 

Better suggestions, please?

 / Svante Kleist
/NEMESIS systemDesign, Stockholm
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