os.name under Win32

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Igor Kravtchenko schrieb:
> Recently, someone advised me to use instead:
> platform.system()
> 
> that returns only 3 different strings: Java, Linux or Windows.  End of
> story.

That's not true:

ActivePython 2.4.1 Build 247 (ActiveState Corp.) based on
Python 2.4.1 (#1, Jun 20 2005, 17:18:51) [C] on sunos5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import platform
>>> platform.system()
'SunOS'

In any case, the platform module is a more recent addition to Python;
so code using it may not work on older installations (unless you
ship the platform module with your application).

> Is this not supposed to work better than sys.platform?
> Indeed I'm pretty worried about having "win64" returned on further os
> like Windows Vista and having our tests failing again.

It won't. On Win64, sys.platform is still win32.

Regards,
Martin