On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Jeff Hardy <jdha...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you misremembered - there's lots of code that uses > `sys.platform == 'win32'` to detect Windows, but sys.platform is 'cli' > for IronPython. I'm pretty sure `os.name has always been 'nt' (when > running on Windows), and if not, it definitely is now. > > Jython sets os.name to 'java' (IIRC), so there isn't a uniform way to > detect Windows across all implementations. I've been thinking that this is a bit of a historical mistake on our part. I'm strongly considering setting os.name properly in Jython3.
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