Finding out the OS distribution name (platform.py)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Randall Hopper wrote:
> 
> M.-A. Lemburg:
>  |I just uploaded a new version that now uses a function based API.
>  |This avoids the long import time due the module scanning binaries
>  |or spawning shells. The location is the same as above and running
>  |the script still prints the above text to stdout except that
>  |the libc check is now only done on Linux systems ...
> 
>  |... do *BSD and others have the problem of two different libc's ?
> 
> No, not that can be linked with by the same set of objects (for FreeBSD).
> 
> FreeBSD 3.x and later is ELF.  Folks sometimes install AOUT libs for old
> progs they can't or don't want to rebuild, but that's not a problem.  Build
> ELF, it links with ELF; build AOUT, it links with AOUT.

Thanks. So leaving the check out for FreeBSD is ok. What about other
nifty OSes like BeOS, NetBSD, the new BSD-based MacOS (can't remember the
name right now) ?

Some information about MSDOS, Amiga and Windows CE would also be nice,
BTW.

If all goes well, the module might be a good candidate for the
standard distribution. It offers *much* more detailed information
than sys.platform.

I've uploaded a new version:

        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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