platform — Access to underlying platform’s identifying data¶Source code: Lib/platform.py
Note
Specific platforms listed alphabetically, with Linux included in the Unix section.
platform.architecture(executable=sys.executable, bits='', linkage='')¶Queries the given executable (defaults to the Python interpreter binary) for various architecture information.
Returns a tuple (bits, linkage) which contain information about the bit
architecture and the linkage format used for the executable. Both values are
returned as strings.
Values that cannot be determined are returned as given by the parameter presets.
If bits is given as '', the sizeof(pointer) (or
sizeof(long) on Python version < 1.5.2) is used as indicator for the
supported pointer size.
The function relies on the system’s file command to do the actual work.
This is available on most if not all Unix platforms and some non-Unix platforms
and then only if the executable points to the Python interpreter. Reasonable
defaults are used when the above needs are not met.
Note
On Mac OS X (and perhaps other platforms), executable files may be universal files containing multiple architectures.
To get at the “64-bitness” of the current interpreter, it is more
reliable to query the sys.maxsize attribute:
is_64bits = sys.maxsize > 2**32
platform.machine()¶Returns the machine type, e.g. 'i386'. An empty string is returned if the
value cannot be determined.
platform.node()¶Returns the computer’s network name (may not be fully qualified!). An empty string is returned if the value cannot be determined.
platform.platform(aliased=0, terse=0)¶Returns a single string identifying the underlying platform with as much useful information as possible.
The output is intended to be human readable rather than machine parseable. It may look different on different platforms and this is intended.
If aliased is true, the function will use aliases for various platforms that
report system names which differ from their common names, for example SunOS will
be reported as Solaris. The system_alias() function is used to implement
this.
Setting terse to true causes the function to return only the absolute minimum information needed to identify the platform.
platform.processor()¶Returns the (real) processor name, e.g. 'amdk6'.
An empty string is returned if the value cannot be determined. Note that many
platforms do not provide this information or simply return the same value as for
machine(). NetBSD does this.
platform.python_build()¶Returns a tuple (buildno, builddate) stating the Python build number and
date as strings.
platform.python_compiler()¶Returns a string identifying the compiler used for compiling Python.
platform.python_branch()¶Returns a string identifying the Python implementation SCM branch.
platform.python_implementation()¶Returns a string identifying the Python implementation. Possible return values are: ‘CPython’, ‘IronPython’, ‘Jython’, ‘PyPy’.
platform.python_revision()¶Returns a string identifying the Python implementation SCM revision.
platform.python_version()¶Returns the Python version as string 'major.minor.patchlevel'.
Note that unlike the Python sys.version, the returned value will always
include the patchlevel (it defaults to 0).
platform.python_version_tuple()¶Returns the Python version as tuple (major, minor, patchlevel) of strings.
Note that unlike the Python sys.version, the returned value will always
include the patchlevel (it defaults to '0').
platform.release()¶Returns the system’s release, e.g. '2.2.0' or 'NT' An empty string is
returned if the value cannot be determined.
platform.system()¶Returns the system/OS name, e.g. 'Linux', 'Windows', or 'Java'. An
empty string is returned if the value cannot be determined.
platform.system_alias(system, release, version)¶Returns (system, release, version) aliased to common marketing names used
for some systems. It also does some reordering of the information in some cases
where it would otherwise cause confusion.
platform.version()¶Returns the system’s release version, e.g. '#3 on degas'. An empty string is
returned if the value cannot be determined.
platform.uname()¶Fairly portable uname interface. Returns a namedtuple()
containing six attributes: system, node, release,
version, machine, and processor.
Note that this adds a sixth attribute (processor) not present
in the os.uname() result. Also, the attribute names are different
for the first two attributes; os.uname() names them
sysname and nodename.
Entries which cannot be determined are set to ''.
Changed in version 3.3: Result changed from a tuple to a namedtuple.
platform.java_ver(release='', vendor='', vminfo=('', '', ''), osinfo=('', '', ''))¶Version interface for Jython.
Returns a tuple (release, vendor, vminfo, osinfo) with vminfo being a
tuple (vm_name, vm_release, vm_vendor) and osinfo being a tuple
(os_name, os_version, os_arch). Values which cannot be determined are set to
the defaults given as parameters (which all default to '').
platform.win32_ver(release='', version='', csd='', ptype='')¶Get additional version information from the Windows Registry and return a tuple
(release, version, csd, ptype) referring to OS release, version number,
CSD level (service pack) and OS type (multi/single processor).
As a hint: ptype is 'Uniprocessor Free' on single processor NT machines
and 'Multiprocessor Free' on multi processor machines. The ‘Free’ refers
to the OS version being free of debugging code. It could also state ‘Checked’
which means the OS version uses debugging code, i.e. code that checks arguments,
ranges, etc.
Note
This function works best with Mark Hammond’s
win32all package installed, but also on Python 2.3 and
later (support for this was added in Python 2.6). It obviously
only runs on Win32 compatible platforms.
platform.popen(cmd, mode='r', bufsize=-1)¶Portable popen() interface. Find a working popen implementation
preferring win32pipe.popen(). On Windows NT, win32pipe.popen()
should work; on Windows 9x it hangs due to bugs in the MS C library.
Deprecated since version 3.3: This function is obsolete. Use the subprocess module. Check
especially the Replacing Older Functions with the subprocess Module section.
platform.mac_ver(release='', versioninfo=('', '', ''), machine='')¶Get Mac OS version information and return it as tuple (release, versioninfo,
machine) with versioninfo being a tuple (version, dev_stage,
non_release_version).
Entries which cannot be determined are set to ''. All tuple entries are
strings.
platform.dist(distname='', version='', id='', supported_dists=('SuSE', 'debian', 'redhat', 'mandrake', ...))¶This is another name for linux_distribution().
Deprecated since version 3.5, will be removed in version 3.7.
platform.linux_distribution(distname='', version='', id='', supported_dists=('SuSE', 'debian', 'redhat', 'mandrake', ...), full_distribution_name=1)¶Tries to determine the name of the Linux OS distribution name.
supported_dists may be given to define the set of Linux distributions to
look for. It defaults to a list of currently supported Linux distributions
identified by their release file name.
If full_distribution_name is true (default), the full distribution read
from the OS is returned. Otherwise the short name taken from
supported_dists is used.
Returns a tuple (distname,version,id) which defaults to the args given as
parameters. id is the item in parentheses after the version number. It
is usually the version codename.
Deprecated since version 3.5, will be removed in version 3.7.
platform.libc_ver(executable=sys.executable, lib='', version='', chunksize=2048)¶Tries to determine the libc version against which the file executable (defaults
to the Python interpreter) is linked. Returns a tuple of strings (lib,
version) which default to the given parameters in case the lookup fails.
Note that this function has intimate knowledge of how different libc versions add symbols to the executable is probably only usable for executables compiled using gcc.
The file is read and scanned in chunks of chunksize bytes.