How Can I Determine the Operating System with Python?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Jill> How can I put a check in my script which will allow me to
    Jill> determine whether I'm running on Windows or Linux at execution
    Jill> time?

Check the value of sys.platform:

    Python 1.5.2 (#1, Nov 27 2000, 02:23:30)  [GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on sunos5
    Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
    >>> import sys
    >>> sys.platform
    'sunos5'

vs.

    Python 2.3a0 (#4, Mar 11 2002, 21:35:57) 
    [GCC 3.0.1] on linux2
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import sys
    >>> sys.platform
    'linux2'

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