mypy does not recognize os.name

Bug Report

mypy respects platform conditions using sys.platform variable, but do not recognize os.name.

Related issue: #8166

To Reproduce

Consider this piece of code, assuming we are on Linux:

import os
import signal

if os.name == 'nt':
    signal_type = signal.SIGBREAK
else:
    signal_type = signal.SIGTERM

Expected Behavior

mypy should not raise any error.

Actual Behavior

mypy fails with:

main.py:5: error: Module has no attribute "SIGBREAK"
Found 1 error in 1 file (checked 1 source file)

Note that replacing os.name == 'nt' with sys.platform == 'win32' fixes this issue.

Environment

Mypy version used: 0.961
Python version used: 3.10
Operating system: Linux

Use sys.platform over os.name

Similar to #8166 (comment)
This is understood by the Pylance language server (and I assume pyright, although I haven't properly tested)

setuptools for example, has this snippet of code, which causes error: Cannot find implementation or library stub for module named "dl" [import-not-found] on Windows:

have_rtld = False
use_stubs = False

if sys.platform == "darwin":
    use_stubs = True
elif os.name != 'nt':
    try:
        import dl # type: ignore[import-not-found] # https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/13002

        use_stubs = have_rtld = hasattr(dl, 'RTLD_NOW')
    except ImportError:
        pass

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Avasam commented on Feb 21, 2024

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