May 9, 2000
5:19 a.m.
Windows CE uses "wince", and I certainly dont believe this should be "win32" (although if you read the CE marketting stuff, they would have you believe it is close enough that we should :-).
So to be _truly_ "windows portable", you will still need [:3]=="win" anyway :-)
That's a feature :-). Too many things we think we know are true on Windows don't hold on Win/CE, so it's worth being more precise. I don't believe this is the case for Win64, but I have to admit I speak from a position of ignorance -- I am clueless as to what defines Win64. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)