how to determine Operating System in Use?

[Prateek]

eeps! typo.

> if sys.platform == "darwin":
>     macStuff()
> elif sys.platform == "win32":
>     winStuff()
>

Not sure what the string is on linux. Just fire up the interpreter and
try it.

Prateek

Prateek wrote:
> also try:
>
> sys.platform
>
> if sys.platform == "darwin":
>     macStuff()
> elif sys.platform == "win32":
>     linuxStuff()
>
>
> James Cunningham wrote:
> > On 2006-12-13 19:28:14 -0500, nanjundi at gmail.com said:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Dec 13, 6:32 pm, "Ian F. Hood" <IanFH... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Hi
> > >> In typically windows environments I have used:
> > >> if 'Windows' in os.environ['OS']...
> > >> to prove it, but now I need to properly support different environments.
> > >> To do so I must accurately determine what system the python instance is
> > >> running on (linux, win, mac, etc).
> > >> Is there a best practises way to do this?
> > >> TIA
> > >> Ian
> > >
> > > I would do this:
> > > --------------------
> > > if os.name == ''posix':
> > >     linuxStuff()
> > > elif os.name == 'nt':
> > >     windowsStuff()
> > > elif os.name == 'os2': ...
> > > -------------------
> > > os.name is  'posix', 'nt', 'os2', 'mac', 'ce' or 'riscos'
> > >
> > > -N
> >
> > Bearing in mind, of course, that Mac will return "posix", too. And
> > Cygwin might. Erg.
> > 
> > Best,
> > James