Hardware specs gathering? - platform independant

[Peter Hansen]

Nicky Kotze wrote:
I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to gather the computer's specs. At
> the end it will be scripted into Blender.
> 
> Does Python have such direct hardware access methods that would be platform 
> indepandant?

Define "specs".  Specifically, please.  :-)

Python has access to some things, but most likely not all
the things you'd like.

-Peter