On Jan 10, 7:53 pm, Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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) >
Better yet, first use sys.platform. If that is 'linux2', then use platform.dist(). /Jean Brouwers > > 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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
