t.p.r.Platform : class documentation

Gives us information about the platform we're running on.

Method	__init__	Undocumented
Method	isKnown	Do we know about this platform?
Method	getType	Get platform type.
Method	isMacOSX	Check if current platform is Mac OS X.
Method	isWinNT	Are we running in Windows NT?
Method	isWindows	Are we running in Windows?
Method	isVista	Check if current platform is Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008.
Method	isLinux	Check if current platform is Linux.
Method	supportsThreads	Can threads be created?
Method	supportsINotify	Return `True` if we can use the inotify API on this platform.

def __init__(self, name=None, platform=None): (source)

Undocumented

def isKnown(self): (source)

Do we know about this platform?

Returns Boolean indicating whether this is a known platform or not. (type: bool)

def getType(self): (source)

Get platform type.

Returns Either 'posix', 'win32' or 'java' (type: str)

def isMacOSX(self): (source)

Check if current platform is Mac OS X.

Returns True if the current platform has been detected as OS X. (type: bool)

def isWinNT(self): (source)

Are we running in Windows NT?

This is deprecated and always returns True on win32 because Twisted only supports Windows NT-derived platforms at this point.

Returns True if the current platform has been detected as Windows NT. (type: bool)

def isWindows(self): (source)

Are we running in Windows?

Returns True if the current platform has been detected as Windows. (type: bool)

def isVista(self): (source)

Check if current platform is Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008.

Returns True if the current platform has been detected as Vista (type: bool)

def isLinux(self): (source)

Check if current platform is Linux.

Returns True if the current platform has been detected as Linux. (type: bool)

def supportsThreads(self): (source)

Can threads be created?

Returns True if the threads are supported on the current platform. (type: bool)

def supportsINotify(self): (source)

Return True if we can use the inotify API on this platform.

Present Since 10.1

API Documentation for Twisted, generated by pydoctor at 2013-04-03 11:20:05.