On Jan 10, 8:37 pm, Devraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > My Python program needs reliably detect which Operating System its > being run on, infact it even needs to know which distribution of say > Linux its running on. The reason being its a GTK application that > needs to adapt itself to be a Hildon application if run on devices > like the N800. platform.dist might help you. It's not very complete at all, though. (This is supposed to improve in 2.6, though) > > I have been searching around for an answer to this, and did find some > messages on a lists that suggested the use of sys.platform to detect > platform, with counter posts saying that it didn't work on Windows > etc. > > Can anyone please shed some light on this? > > Thanks a lot.
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