How to detect my OS info?

[Gerhard Häring]

Peter Wu <peterwu at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Mark" == Mark McEahern <marklists at mceahern.com> writes:
> 
>     >> I use Windows and FreeBSD interchangeably. I want to write a
>     >> .signature script that can detect my OS respectively.
>     >> 
>     >> Under FreeBSD, I can fire 'uname -rs' to get the information I need
>     >> and under Windows, I may need to leverage 'ver' to get the info.
>     >> 
>     >> Is there a one-stop solution from Python? I mean I just write one
>     >> python script and it can work both on Windows and FreeBSD? Thanks.
> 
>    Mark> Have you tried:
> 
>    Mark>   import sys print sys.platform
> 
> Under FreeBSD, it reports 'freebsd4';
> Under Win32, it reports 'win32'.
> 
> How can I have more detailed information, such as version?

By using platform.py
(http://www.egenix.com/files/python/Introduction.html).

-- Gerhard