environment fingerprint

[Jabba Laci]

Hi,

Thanks for the tip. I came up with the solution below. For my purposes
the short fingerprint is enough.

Laszlo

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import platform as p
import uuid
import hashlib

def get_fingerprint(md5=False):
    """
Fingerprint of the current operating system/platform.

If md5 is True, a digital fingerprint is returned.
"""
    sb = []
    sb.append(p.node())
    sb.append(p.architecture()[0])
    sb.append(p.architecture()[1])
    sb.append(p.machine())
    sb.append(p.processor())
    sb.append(p.system())
    sb.append(str(uuid.getnode())) # MAC address
    text = '#'.join(sb)
    if md5:
        md5 = hashlib.md5()
        md5.update(text)
        return md5.hexdigest()
    else:
        return text

def get_short_fingerprint(length=6):
    """
A short digital fingerprint of the current operating system/platform.

Length should be at least 6 characters.
"""
    assert 6 <= length <= 32
    #
    return get_fingerprint(md5=True)[-length:]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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