How to tell if you're running on windows?

[Allan Davis]

Try this

import sys
import os
sep = None
if sys.platform == 'cygwin':
  sep = ';'
else:
  sep = os.pathsep

# then use sep in your path statment

Hope this helps
Thanks,
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On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:

> I'm using 2.5.1.  How can I tell if I'm running on windows?  The
> obvious answer, platform.system(), gets complicated.  On the python
> that comes with cygwin, it returns 'CYGWIN_NT-5.2-WOW64', but I've got
> a native windows build of python where it returns 'Microsoft'.
>
> The real problem I'm trying to solve is whether to build a LIBPATH
> environment variable with ';' or ':' delimiting the entries.  On the
> cygwin build, os.pathsep returns ':', which isn't really correct.  If
> you use that, you end up building paths that look like c:foo:c:bar.
> It should be c:foo;c:bar
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