An uname - like call?

[Andrew Csillag]

Szilveszter Juhos wrote:
> 
> elvira:~(ndgy)python
> Python 1.5.1 (#1, Jan 20 1999, 20:01:05)  [GCC egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (e
> on linux2
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> >>>
> 
> How can I get this string in a script? It should be annoying to fork a
> os.system("uname -a") since the OS ID is already in the interpreter
> somehow.
> 
> Szilva
> http://elvira.dur.ac.uk/~ndgy/
combination of sys.copyright (the second line), sys.platform (the linux2
part) and sys.version (the 1.5.1 (#1, Jan 20 1999, 20:01:05)  [GCC
egcs-2.91.60 19981201] part)

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