Couple of noobish question

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On Feb 5, 11:14 am, Tim Rowe <digi... at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On an MS Windows system, os.uname()[0] raises an AttributeError -- sys
> doesn't seem to contain uname. Is that a Linux thing? Would os.name
> work on Linux? Or would one have to use exception handling and catch
> the Windows case?

It seems to be a Windows thing.  My Linux box gives me 'Linux' the
server gives me 'SunOS' and a Mac tells me 'Darwin'.  I'm still
running Python2.4 on the Windows box.  At least in that version on the
OS,  the 'os' module has no attribute 'uname',  On both Linux and
SunOS, os.name returns 'posix'.