How Can I Determine the Operating System with Python?

[David Eppstein]

In article <slrna9m6sv.4s.gerhard at lilith.my-fqdn.de>,
 Gerhard Häring <gerhard at bigfoot.de> wrote:

> And nmap isn't a standard Unix tool either. On Unix, the only thing you can
> depend on is the presence of "uname", which exactly the right tool for the
> task. Only I don't know of an "uname" equivalent for Windows or Mac.

uname works just fine on Mac OS X.  It returns "Darwin".
Don't know of an equivalent for non-Unix versions of Mac OS, though.

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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
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