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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
