Re: Adapting code to multiple platforms

From: Peter Hansen (peter_at_engcorp.com)
Date: 03/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 08:06:59 -0500

Simon John wrote:
> If you're using a GUI, then that may help you decode the platform too -
> for example wxPython has wx.Platform, there's also platform.platform()
> , sys.platform and os.name
>
> You could try import win32api and checking for an exception ;-)

(Winky noted) Just in case anyone thinks that last is a
useful idea, keep in mind that win32api is not installed
(with the standard distribution) but must be installed
with a separate download of the pywin32 package by Mark
Hammond.

-Peter

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