identifying operating system

[Mahogany Rush]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 02:50:44 GMT, Juerg Tschirren <jtschirr at engineering.
uiowa.edu> wrote:
 >> 
 >> Is there a way how I can identify the operating system my Python script
 >> is running on (e.g., Linux, Windows, Mac, ...)?
 >> 
 >> Juerg


Python 1.6a2 (#1, May 14 2000, 08:15:17)  [GCC 2.8.1] on sunos5
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import sys
>>> sys.platform
'sunos5'