Finding out the OS distribution name

[Adrian Eyre]

> E.g. I'd like a function that returns 'Redhat6.1'/'SuSE6.2' or
> 'Win95'/'Win98'/'WinNT' or 'MacOS8'/'MacOS9' etc.

I think the closest there is to this is sys.platform

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