Python: What OS am I running on?

Question

What do I need to look at to see whether I\'m on Windows or Unix, etc?

Answer 1

I am using the WLST tool that comes with weblogic, and it doesn't implement the platform package.

wls:/offline> import os
wls:/offline> print os.name
java 
wls:/offline> import sys
wls:/offline> print sys.platform
'java1.5.0_11'

Apart from patching the system javaos.py (issue with os.system() on windows 2003 with jdk1.5) (which I can't do, I have to use weblogic out of the box), this is what I use:

def iswindows():
  os = java.lang.System.getProperty( "os.name" )
  return "win" in os.lower()