os.name under Win32

[Steve Holden]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Igor Kravtchenko schrieb:
> 
>>My question is whether that is supposed to be totally impossible.
>>Under Win32, we are indeed supposed to have os.name = "nt".  Is that value
>>hardcoded in Win32 binaries distribution themself?  Can it potentially
>>change?
> 
> 
> I can't test it right now, but I would expect that Cygwin Python
> binaries on Win32 have os.name == "posix".
> 
That's correct.

regards
  Steve
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