# Documentation The documentation for `distutils.util.get_platform` says: > For non-POSIX platforms, currently just returns `sys.platform`. https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/apiref.html#distutils.util.get_platform That presumably includes Windows. But Windows returns strings like `win-amd64`: ``` >>> import sys >>> import distutils.util >>> sys.platform 'win32' >>> distutils.util.get_platform() 'win-amd64' >>> ```