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Dan Albert
Dan Albert

Reputation: 10509

What values are given for the `os.name` family of functions on various platforms in Python?

Python has a handful of different ways to determine what OS the program is running on:

What are the values of these on various platforms?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2419

Answers (1)

Dan Albert
Dan Albert

Reputation: 10509

Linux:

>>> import os
>>> os.name
'posix'
>>> import platform
>>> platform.system()
'Linux'
>>> import sys
>>> sys.platform
'linux2'

Mac OS:

>>> import os
>>> os.name
'posix'
>>> import platform
>>> platform.system()
'Darwin'
>>> import sys
>>> sys.platform
'darwin'

Windows:

>>> import os
>>> os.name
'nt'
>>> import platform
>>> platform.system()
'Windows'
>>> import sys
>>> sys.platform
'win32'

Cygwin:

>>> import os
>>> os.name
'posix'
>>> import platform
>>> platform.system()
'CYGWIN_NT-10.0'
>>> import sys
>>> sys.platform
'cygwin'

GhostBSD 24.04.1, CPython 3.9.18

>>> import os
>>> os.name
'posix'
>>> import platform
>>> platform.system()
'FreeBSD'
>>> import sys
>>> sys.platform
'freebsd14'

MSYS2, Python 3.12.7:

>>> import os
>>> os.name
'nt'
>>> import platform
>>> platform.system()
'Windows'
>>> import sys
>>> sys.platform
'win32'

Upvotes: 5

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