Michiel Sikma wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I was thinking about making a really insignificant addition to an > online system that I'm making using Python: namely, I would like it > to print the platform that it is running on in a human-readable > manner. I was thinking of doing it like this:
[... snip ...] > However, in order to populate the list of platforms, I need to know > which strings sys.platform can return. I haven't found any > documentation on this Not that this answers your question directly, but is the platform module of any more use to you? http://docs.python.org/lib/module-platform.html TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list