How Can I Determine the Operating System with Python?

[Mark Hadfield]

"Jill Obsidian" <obsidian_genius at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:cc779aae.0203201733.3717f882 at posting.google.com...

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

>>> import sys
>>> sys.platform
'win32'
>>> import os
>>> os.name
'nt'

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