"Peter Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Simon John wrote: >> If you're using a GUI, then that may help you decode the platform too - >> for example wxPython has wx.Platform, there's also platform.platform() >> , sys.platform and os.name >> >> You could try import win32api and checking for an exception ;-) > > (Winky noted) Just in case anyone thinks that last is a > useful idea, keep in mind that win32api is not installed > (with the standard distribution) but must be installed > with a separate download of the pywin32 package by Mark > Hammond. > > -Peter
How about try: import msvcrt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
