[Tutor] Re: platform info

[Prahlad Vaidyanathan]

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Hi,

On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 Einar Th. Einarsson spewed into the ether:
> Hey gang.
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>   In my ongoing quest to write truly portable and dynamic code, I need my=
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> application to be able to gather the following system information at runt=
ime:
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> CPU info:
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> Information as to how to retrieve any of the above without directly using=
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> system specific function or system calls would be greatly appreciated.=20

    Well, for whatever it is worth, you could check out the 'os'
module. eg :

"""
>>> import os
>>> os.getenv("MACHTYPE")
'i586-mandrake-linux-gnu'
>>> os.uname()
('Linux', 'localhost.localdomain', '2.4.3-20mdk', '#1 Sun Apr
15 23:03:10 CEST 2001', 'i686')
>>>
"""

    HTH,

pv.
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Prahlad Vaidyanathan  <http://www.symonds.net/~prahladv/>

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