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Detect the operating system

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Write a Python program that prints a different message per operating system.

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Output
Windows

Approach

  1. sys.platform is “win32”, “linux” or “darwin”.

Solution

Python
import sys if sys.platform.startswith("win"):    print("Windows")elif sys.platform == "darwin":    print("macOS")else:    print("Linux or another Unix")
Output
Windows

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