getting linux distro used...

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <c7c38f62-1929-46da-
a88b-2ded6f8aff9d at y33g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, deostroll wrote:

> I just found that you could use platform.system() to get the
> underlying os used. But is there a way to get the distro used...?

Mostly the differences will not be important. But if you want to know, I 
have been compiling a list of tests here 
<http://codecodex.com/wiki/index.php?title=Identifying_the_OS_Distribution>.