Detecting Browsers in Python

[Jay O'Connor]

Daniel Orner wrote:

>Does anyone know of a simple way to have a Python script find out what
>browser is accessing it? After a web search the only thing I found to
>do this is Zope, but the system I'm programming doesn't use Zope and
>I'm not really interested in installing it just for this minor detail.
>Is there another way?
>
>Thanks!
>
>--Daniel Orner
>  
>

Going purely from memory, "USER-AGENT" or something similar entry in the 
os.environ dictionary will have a string identifying the browser.  It's 
only partially reliable because some browsers will pretend to be another 
browser and some, I think, will allow the user to specify what they want 
to pretend to be.

Anyway, play around with it and see if will give you what you need

Take care,
Jay