os

The os module provides a portable interface to common operating-system services. It does this by searching for an OS-dependent built-in module such as nt or posix and exporting the functions and data as found there. Unless otherwise noted, functions are available on Windows and UNIX. UNIX systems include both Linux and Mac OS X.

The following general-purpose variables are defined:

environ

A mapping object representing the current environment variables. Changes to the mapping are reflected in the current environment.

linesep

The string used to separate lines on the current platform. May be a single character such as '\n' for POSIX or multiple characters such as '\r\n' for Windows.

name

The name of the OS-dependent module imported: 'posix'

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