""" Flags for Platform-specific APIs. Use these Flags instead of sys.platform.startswith('') or try/except. """ import sys is_win32 = sys.platform.startswith("win32") is_cygwin = sys.platform.startswith("cygwin") is_linux = sys.platform.startswith("linux") is_freebsd = sys.platform.startswith("freebsd") is_darwin = sys.platform.startswith("darwin")