Checking your operating system in Python
You can detect your operating system in Python using either os.name, sys.platform, or platform.system().
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00:00 Common approaches for checking your operating system
00:22 Using "os.name"
00:43 Using "sys.platform"
01:17 Using "platform.system()"
02:17 Build OS versus runtime OS and human versus machine readability
02:50 Selecting the best approach for OS detection
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