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AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'strip'

I am trying to strip the white space from the platform.system value so I can compare it in some if/else logic. I am getting the error below. What am I missing?

line 9, in print(os_name.strip()) AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'strip'

import platform

os_name = platform.system
os_name_strip = os_name.strip()

print('OS Name      :', os_name_strip)

if os_name == 'Windows':
    print('we have an OS match')
else:
    print('we do not have an OS match')
Solution

  • Try this;

    import platform
os_name = platform.system()
os_name_strip = os_name.strip()

print('OS Name      :', os_name_strip)

if os_name == 'Windows':
    print('we have an OS match')
else:
    print('we do not have an OS match')

OS Name      : Windows
we have an OS match