I've long been successfully using this hack I found at macosxhints.com:
/usr/bin/awk '/ComputerName/ {{{getline} print substr($0,12,length($0)-20)} exit}' /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist
The output of this command can of course be parsed by Python.
A better way would be to use plistlib to parse the preferences.plist file, but I just never
got around to it since the awk thing has been working reliably.
Brad Allen
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