How can I find the current OS in Python

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Possible Duplicate    Python  What OS am I running on        As the title says  how can I find the current operating system in python

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import os print os name   This gives you the essential information you will usually need  To distinguish between  say  different editions of Windows  you will have to use a platform-specific method

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https   docs python org library os html  To complement Greg s post  if you re on a posix system  which includes MacOS  Linux  Unix  etc  you can use os uname   to get a better feel for what kind of system it is

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Something along the lines   import os if os name     posix       print os system  uname -a      insert other possible OSes here       else      print  unknown OS

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If you want user readable data but still detailed  you can use platform platform      gt  gt  gt  import platform  gt  gt  gt  platform platform    Linux-3 3 0-8 fc16 x86 64-x86 64-with-fedora-16-Verne    platform also has some other useful methods    gt  gt  gt  platform system    Windows   gt  gt  gt  platform release    XP   gt  gt  gt  platform version    5 1 2600    Here s a few different possible calls you can make to identify where you are  import platform import sys  def linux distribution      try      return platform linux distribution     except      return  N A   print    Python version   s dist   s linux distribution   s system   s machine   s platform   s uname   s version   s mac ver   s         sys version split   n    str platform dist     linux distribution    platform system    platform machine    platform platform    platform uname    platform version    platform mac ver         The outputs of this script ran on a few different systems  Linux  Windows  Solaris  MacOS  and architectures  x86  x64  Itanium  power pc  sparc  is available here  https   github com hpcugent easybuild wiki OS flavor name version  e g  Solaris on sparc gave   Python version    2 6 4  r264 75706  Aug  4 2010  16 53 32   C    dist               linux distribution               system  SunOS machine  sun4u platform  SunOS-5 9-sun4u-sparc-32bit-ELF uname    SunOS    xxx    5 9    Generic 122300-60    sun4u    sparc   version  Generic 122300-60 mac ver

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I usually use sys platform  docs  to get the platform  sys platform will distinguish between linux  other unixes  and OS X  while os name is  quot posix quot  for all of them  For much more detailed information  use the platform module  This has cross-platform functions that will give you information on the machine architecture  OS and OS version  version of Python  etc  Also it has os-specific functions to get things like the particular linux distribution

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