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Is there a way to check if my python script is running in Windows Command Prompt, vs Cygwin? Using os.name doesn't work because Cygwin on Windows still returns "nt". I want to check the command prompt's name or type from a shell script so I can differentiate between Command Prompt and Cygwin.

gusg21
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  • Maybe the perl version is not exactly the same. – simlev Mar 15 '17 at 21:57
  • What do you mean? – gusg21 Mar 15 '17 at 22:04
  • Ops, I mean Python: Cygwin installs its own python executable, so scripts running inside a Cygwin terminal will probably use that. What python executable is used by your scripts running inside a Windows command prompt? If you make them use a different one, possibly a slightly different version, you could check the version and know which environment you are in. – simlev Mar 15 '17 at 22:09
  • Possible duplicate of [How can I know if my python script is running? (using Cygwin or Windows shell)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22571333/how-can-i-know-if-my-python-script-is-running-using-cygwin-or-windows-shell) – Taku Mar 15 '17 at 22:15
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    My copy of Cygwin uses my Windows' Python. And I don't just want to detect Cygwin, I want to detect specifically Windows Command Prompt. – gusg21 Mar 15 '17 at 23:27
  • My suggestion is to **create** a difference you can detect. Either **make** the script use a slightly different Python version, or create a file before launching the script as abccd suggests, or simply call the script with an additional parameter, e.g. w from cmd and c from cygwin. I can't think of any drawbacks. – simlev Mar 16 '17 at 05:11
  • But I want this to work universally. The user shouldn't have to do anything besides run it. If it's just not possible, I'm OK with that. – gusg21 Mar 16 '17 at 12:38

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Have you tried 

import platform
platform.system()

On my system it outputs

CYGWIN_NT-10.0

Hope this helps

jayaram S
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