sys.platform documentation?

[Michiel Sikma]

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
>
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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