Hi, On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Sheila King wrote: <...> > I guess I'm just trying to get some advice, or make sure that I only > want to use os.name and not mess with sys.platform. Ya, that's the right idea. If it turns out you need to use sys.platform 'cause of a quirk somewhere... <shrug> and hope you don't need to re-code too much. :) - Bruce