Michiel Sikma wrote: > Op 10-aug-2006, om 13:00 heeft Tim Golden het volgende geschreven: > > > Michiel Sikma wrote: > >> Hello everybody, > >> > >> I was thinking about making a really insignificant addition to an > >> online system that I'm making using Python: namely, I would like it > >> to print the platform that it is running on in a human-readable > >> manner. I was thinking of doing it like this: > > > > [... snip ...] > > > >> However, in order to populate the list of platforms, I need to know > >> which strings sys.platform can return. I haven't found any > >> documentation on this > > > > Not that this answers your question directly, but is the > > platform module of any more use to you? > > > > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-platform.html > > > > TJG > > > > -- > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > I didn't even know there was a platform module. Too bad that one also > does not have documentation on possible values for common systems. > > It seems that uname() is the most resourceful function. So if I do this: > > >>> import platform > >>> platform.uname() > ('Darwin', 'imac-g5-van-michiel-sikma.local', '8.6.0', 'Darwin Kernel > Version 8.6.0: Tue Mar 7 16:58:48 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.6.70.obj~1/ > RELEASE_PPC', 'Power Macintosh', 'powerpc') > > That's on Mac OS X 10.4.6. Indeed more useful. > > Michiel
It might be a good idea to write a brief script to print out sys.platform, platform.platform(), platform.uname(), etc.. and post it here for people to run and post their results. Peace, ~Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
