[Tutor] os.name on Windows 98

[Magnus Lyckå]

At 16:15 2003-07-10 -0700, Tony Cappellini wrote:
> > >Why does os.name return 'nt' on a Windows 98 machine ?
>The question should have been "Why does os.name return the wrong name for
>the OS on a Windows 98 machine ?

Beacuse os.name was never intended to tell you the name of
any operating system. It tells you the name of a Python
module it uses! Didn't you read the quote from the docs I gave?


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