[Python-Dev] Recommended way to tell platform

[Michael Hudson]

Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> writes:

> OTOH, I have no idea when or why sys.platform == "win32" would give a
> different result than os.name == "nt".

Probably never, but os.name == 'posix' covers a huge variety of sins,
so which one you test affects the 'feel' of the code somewhat.

Cheers,
mwh

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