Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Igor Kravtchenko schrieb: > >>My question is whether that is supposed to be totally impossible. >>Under Win32, we are indeed supposed to have os.name = "nt". Is that value >>hardcoded in Win32 binaries distribution themself? Can it potentially >>change? > > > I can't test it right now, but I would expect that Cygwin Python > binaries on Win32 have os.name == "posix". > That's correct.
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