[issue9966] platform : a boolean to know easily when a system is posix

Brian Curtin added the comment: I second what Jean-Paul said. os.name is well established and I don't think a second way to get the same information is needed. Thanks for the suggestion and patch, Florent. -- nosy: +brian.curtin resolution: -> rejected stage: -> committed/rejected s

[issue9966] platform : a boolean to know easily when a system is posix

Jean-Paul Calderone added the comment: It could, but why introduce this redundancy with `os.name`? -- nosy: +exarkun ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue9966] platform : a boolean to know easily when a system is posix

New submission from Florent Gallaire : Hi, The platform module could provide a boolean to know easily if a system is posix or not. The expected result, when the system is posix : >>> import platform >>> platform.isposix True otherwise : >>> import platform >>> platform.isposix False Here i