m2005 untar error on msys2 (tar01 directory)

[Chris Johns]

On 5/5/20 5:34 pm, Anders Montonen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> On 5 May 2020, at 8:44, Sebastian Huber 
>> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de 
>> <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>> wrote:
>> On 05/05/2020 07:41, Chris Johns wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/5/20 3:34 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>>
>>> What does `os.uname()` return?
>>
>> In the msys shell:
>>
>> $ python
>> Python 3.7.4 (default, Jul 11 2019, 09:35:14)
>> [GCC 9.1.0] on msys
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>> import os
>> >>> os.uname()
>> posix.uname_result(sysname='MSYS_NT-6.1-7601', nodename='Blub', 
>> release='3.0.7-338.x86_64', version='2019-07-11 10:58 UTC', 
>> machine='x86_64')
>>
>> In the mingw64 shell:
>>
>> $ python
>> Python 3.8.2 (default, Feb 27 2020, 05:27:33)  [GCC 9.2.0 64 bit 
>> (AMD64)] on win32
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>> import os
>> >>> os.uname()
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> AttributeError: module 'os' has no attribute ‘uname'
> 
> Python’s own documentation only says “recent flavors of Unix” under 
> availability for the os.uname() method. platform.uname() or sys,platform 
> might be more portable?
> <https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.uname>

Thanks but we are on Windows and a hosted POSIX environment, ie cygwin, 
msys etc.

Chris