Module for generic platform information: platform.py

[Betancourt, Josef]

Tried the platform.py but only get win32 on NT 4.0 service pack 5.   
ver in the shell returns:  Windows NT Version 4.0



> -----Original Message-----
> From: M.-A. Lemburg [mailto:mal at lemburg.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 5:45 AM
> To: Python List @ Python.org
> Subject: Module for generic platform information: platform.py
> 
> 
> Last week I started to write a small module for more convenient and
> portable access to information about the platform on which Python
> is running.
> 
> Many people have helped and provided lots of information
> about the various Python compatible platforms out there... thanks
> everybody :-)
> 
> Some things where I need some more help are:
> · support for Linux distributions other than redhat, suse, 
> debian, mandrake
> · better support for WindowsCE (Jeff Bauer is working on this one)
> · support for MacOS (not the X Server version; JvR is working on it)
> · support for Amiga, MS DOS and maybe VMS
> · a way to find out the true system names and versions on
>   MacOS X Server and Solaris (they both use different names
>   at the OS level, e.g. SunOS 5.5 instead of Solaris 2.5)
> 
> New features:
> · system alias support, e.g. SunOS can be reported as
>   Solaris
> 
> Here is the latest version of that module:
> 
        http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/platform.py

To see if it works on your platform, simply run the script.

Enjoy,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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