[New-bugs-announce] [issue24881] _pyio checks that `os.name == 'win32'` instead of 'nt'

[Cosimo Lupo]

New submission from Cosimo Lupo:

the `_pyio` module at line 16 tries to check whether it is running on Windows platform, by doing:

```
if os.name == 'win32':
    from msvcrt import setmode as _setmode
else:
    _setmode = None
```

However, the string returned by os.name is 'nt' and not 'win32' (the latter is returned by `sys.platform`). Therefore, the value is always False and the setmode function from mscvrt module is never imported.

Thank you.
Cheers,

Cosimo

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components: IO
messages: 248728
nosy: Cosimo Lupo
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: _pyio checks that `os.name == 'win32'` instead of 'nt'
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.5

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