I am integrating with an existing cross-platform system that provides different shell scripts and/or batch files for each environment. Normally the selection is performed manually but my utility needs to automate this. To select the correct utility I need to know what platform my code is running on.
"Paul Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ian F. Hood wrote: >> Hi >> In typically windows environments I have used: >> if 'Windows' in os.environ['OS']... >> to prove it, but now I need to properly support different environments. >> To do so I must accurately determine what system the python instance is >> running on (linux, win, mac, etc). >> Is there a best practises way to do this? >> TIA >> Ian > > The more significant question is "why" do you want to do this? Are you > writing an asset management tool? Do you just want to tell the user > what operating system they are using? The reason may lead to a > different solution. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
