[PyQt] Get platform?

[Mike Ramirez]

On Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:41:34 am you wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:17:54 am Philippe Crave wrote:
> > maybe something from the platform module ?
> > http://docs.python.org/library/platform.html
> > 
> > platform.system()
> > Returns the system/OS name, e.g. 'Linux', 'Windows', or 'Java'. An
> > empty string is returned if the value cannot be determined.
> 
> The only problem with using this in this situation is that Windows can also
> run x11 with cygmin or xming. So checking the OS version is not a great
> way. I did look earlier when this post was finished, but the basic python
> lib, platform, os, sys, sysconfig (maybe something in tkinter might)
> didn't show an obvious answer to this (also maybe
> sysconfig.get_config_vars() might).
> 
> I think Pete's solution is the best solution for this.
> 
> Mike


err, just a minor fix ... "when this post was finished".. should read "when 
this post was first posted"

Mike
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