Well, on windows XP it returns "nt" for os.name <http://os.name> and for sys.platform it returns win32. how can i determine win2k, xp, 9x, etc etc ... -edward -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/attachments/20051025/c3a7059e/attachment.html