<p>What do I need to look at to see whether I'm on Windows or Unix, etc?</p>

```
```
>>> import os
>>> os.name
'posix'
>>> import platform
>>> platform.system()
'Linux'
>>> platform.release()
'2.6.22-15-generic'
```
```
The output of
```
platform.system()
```
is as follows:
Linux:
```
Linux
```
Mac:
```
Darwin
```
Windows:
```
Windows
```
See:
```
platform
```
— Access to underlying platform’s identifying data