[TYPO3-doc] Python on MAC: How does it call the platform?

[Martin Bless]

A question to those having Python on their Mac(book) or Mac in a VM:

Q: What value do you get for 'sys.platform' [1]?

To find out::

  $ python
  Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 26 2010, 22:31:48)
  [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> import sys
  >>> sys.platform
  'linux2'


or::

  $ python -c "import sys; print sys.platform"
  linux2


Is it 'darwin' as the Python docs [1] say? Or do we have variants?:

===================  ==============
System               platform value
===================  ==============
Linux (2.x and 3.x)  'linux2'
Windows              'win32'
Windows/Cygwin       'cygwin'
Mac OS X             'darwin'
OS/2                 'os2'
OS/2 EMX             'os2emx'
RiscOS               'riscos'
AtheOS               'atheos'
===================  ==============


[1] http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.platform

Martin

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