Finding out the OS distribution name (platform.py)

[Cliff Crawford]

Pada Fri, 22 Oct 1999 17:41:31 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg bilang:
| Thanks. So leaving the check out for FreeBSD is ok. What about other
| nifty OSes like BeOS, NetBSD, the new BSD-based MacOS (can't remember the
| name right now) ?

Mac OS X Server.
And it is NOT "nifty". :-P
I ran your module on OS X v1.02, here's the output I got:

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Python 1.5.2 (#1, 07/22/99, 20:33:35)  [GCC Apple DevKit-based CPP 5.0]
on next5_3
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import platform      
>>> platform.platform()
uname: illegal option -- p
usage: uname [-amnrsv]
'Rhapsody-5.5-Power_Macintosh'
>>> platform.system()
'Rhapsody'
>>> platform.node()
'amma'
>>> platform.release()
'5.5'
>>> platform.machine()
'Power Macintosh'
>>> platform.processor()
''
>>> platform.version()
'Kernel Release 5.5: Fri Jul  2 13:10:26 PDT 1999;
root(rcbuilder):Objects/kernel-154.14.obj~10/RELEASE_PPC Copyright (c)
1988-1995,1997-1999 Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved. '
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What's the -p option to uname supposed to do anyway?  Print the processor
name?  I think that's what the -m option is for.

Btw, Python compiles right out of the box on OS X Server.  It's one of the
few un*x packages that I use that I DIDN'T have to patch.  Thanks, Guido! :)


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