Message12276

You can use this:

>>> import os
>>> os.name
'java'
>>> os._name
'nt'

It is reasonable to say that the "platform" is Java, and so that is what we return as os.name. But many programs actually want to know what the file system is like, so practicality suggests os.name really ought to tell you that. Unfortunately, practicality came too late to change things, but we added os._name to compensate. Portable code looks something like:

if os.name=='nt' or (os.name=='java' and os._name=='nt'):
    # Do windows stuff