hi george, is the second from a RHEL system or scientific linux?
it also looks like debian/ubuntu apply a patch to the default python to report it properly (ie python build with easybuild will report it differently) (see http://bugs.python.org/issue9514)
stijn On 01/23/2013 08:40 AM, George Tsouloupas wrote:
>>> print platform.dist() ('centos', '6.1', 'Final') ('redhat', '5.6', 'Tikanga') ('debian', '6.0.5', '') ('debian', '4.0', '') On 01/23/2013 09:31 AM, Stijn De Weirdt wrote:import platform print platform.dist()

