Detecting OS platform in Python

[Devraj]

Hi everyone,

My Python program needs reliably detect which Operating System its
being run on, infact it even needs to know which distribution of say
Linux its running on. The reason being its a GTK application that
needs to adapt itself to be a Hildon application if run on devices
like the N800.

I have been searching around for an answer to this, and did find some
messages on a lists that suggested the use of sys.platform to detect
platform, with counter posts saying that it didn't work on Windows
etc.

Can anyone please shed some light on this?

Thanks a lot.