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Ahmad
Ahmad

Reputation: 13416

platform.system() not working on Windows

I've just installed WinPython (32 bit) on my Windows machine and am trying to run code which otherwise works on my remote linux machine. The code makes use of Python's platform library. The problem is when I run my code, I get an error where my code is trying to make use of platform library's function platform.system()

platform.system() should return a string like Linux, Windows, etc., but on my Windows system, a call to platform.system() gets the following result:

>>> import platform
>>> print platform.system()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'system'

Any ideas why the above is happening ? The WinPython I have is based on the latest Python 2.7 (I think 2.7.10), and Python 2.7 DOES have a platform.system() method as mentioned here: https://docs.python.org/2/library/platform.html

So I'm not sure what's the problem. Any ideas ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3639

Answers (3)

Japple123212321
Japple123212321

Reputation: 1

When I ran the code, it said that "platform" was a string, which it wasn't. I just did import platform as platform_module instead of import platform and then replaced "platform" with "platform_module" and it worked.

Upvotes: 0

zvone
zvone

Reputation: 19362

It definitely looks like the platform you get when you import platform is not the built-in module. You should find out what exactly is imported.

I believe the folowing should print out find all candidates. What does it print in your case?

import os, sys
for p in sys.path:
    try:
        for fn in (os.listdir(p or '.')):
            if 'platform' in fn.lower():
                print os.path.join(p, fn)
    except OSError:
        print ':skipped', p

Upvotes: 3

stonebig
stonebig

Reputation: 1191

This has been tried on winpython2.7.10 32 bit:

import platform;platform.system()

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Upvotes: 3

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