Adapting code to multiple platforms

[Peter Hansen]

Simon John wrote:
> If you're using a GUI, then that may help you decode the platform too -
> for example wxPython has wx.Platform, there's also platform.platform()
> , sys.platform and os.name
> 
> You could try import win32api and checking for an exception ;-)

(Winky noted)  Just in case anyone thinks that last is a
useful idea, keep in mind that win32api is not installed
(with the standard distribution) but must be installed
with a separate download of the pywin32 package by Mark
Hammond.

-Peter