environment fingerprint

[Andrew Berg]

On 2013.01.29 07:18, Jabba Laci wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a script that I want to run in different environments: on
> Linux, on Windows, on my home machine, at my workplace, in virtualbox,
> etc. In each environment I want to use different configurations. For
> instance the temp. directory on Linux would be /tmp, on Windows
> c:\temp, etc. When the script starts, I want to test the environment
> and load the corresponding config. settings. How to get an
> OS-independent fingerprint of the environment?
http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/platform.html
http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/os.html#os.environ

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