excellent, ty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Dec 13, 6:32 pm, "Ian F. Hood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > I would do this: > -------------------- > if os.name == ''posix': > linuxStuff() > elif os.name == 'nt': > windowsStuff() > elif os.name == 'os2': ... > ------------------- > os.name is 'posix', 'nt', 'os2', 'mac', 'ce' or 'riscos' > > -N > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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