It is, however, technically possible to create an operating system centered on Python, that is; have only the very low level stuff in written in C and assembly and have most of the rest of the …

Short Story. Use platform.system().It returns Windows, Linux or Darwin (for OS X).. Long Story. There are three ways to get the OS in Python, each with its own pro and cons:

Sep 21, 2008 · I usually use sys.platform to get the platform. sys.platform will distinguish between linux, other unixes, and OS X, while os.name is "posix" for all of them.

Note on Python version: If you are still using Python 2, subprocess.call works in a similar way. ProTip: shlex.split can help you to parse the command for run, call, and other subprocess …

May 19, 2016 · Note that since Python 3.3, "linux2" is no longer a possible value of platform (see the linked docs for corroboration) and so if you only need to support Python 3.3 and later you …

I'm trying to install the os Python module on Windows. In a cmd console, I typed: C:\\Users\\username> pip install os Collecting os Could not find a version that satisfies the …

Very bad idea. OS in python is a nonsense. The OS should have the ability to manage all the processes, but the most important: an OS should have the ability to manage all the hardware …

Aug 4, 2020 · How do I check the operating system in Python? 2. Python 2.7, OS Detection return values. 4.

Return a 5-tuple containing information identifying the current operating system. The tuple contains 5 strings: (sysname, nodename, release, version, machine). Some systems truncate …

Python os module. Specifically for Python 3.6/3.7: os.name: The name of the operating system dependent module imported. The following names have currently been registered: 'posix', 'nt', …