How can I get "lowercase" namespace with cls.members to work?

So I have written this module:

plaform.py

from enum import IntFlag

class PlatformFlag(IntFlag):
    LINUX = 1,
    MACOSX = 2,
    WINDOWS = 3
globals().update(PlatformFlag.__members__)

And I am trying to use it this way:

import platform

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if platform.WINDOWS:
        print("This is Windows!")

However, I get:

"Exception has occurred: AttributeError module 'platform' has no attribute 'WINDOWS'"

This works:

import platform

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if platform.PlatformFlag.WINDOWS:
        print("This is Windows!")

However, this is NOT the desired way of doing it. I am thinking about the re.py in cPython. They way you can invoke this e.g. re.compile(pattern, flags=re.M). However, for some reason unknown to me, the globals().upate() doesn't seem to do the trick, or I am missing something here.

Re.py:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/re.py

EDIT: This deserves credit, https://repl.it/@JoranBeasley/IntentionalPastStrategies

Solution

The problem you have comes from naming, as there is a builtin module called platform.

https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/platform.html

Running your code with another name like platform123.py works. However the functionality to determine which OS is running is not part of your code and as such does not work :)