getting linux distro used...

[deostroll]

Hi,

I just found that you could use platform.system() to get the
underlying os used. But is there a way to get the distro used...?

--deostroll

 

[David Lyon]

perphaps platform.uname()?

 

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

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I just found that you could use platform.system() to get the
underlying os used. But is there a way to get the distro used...?

Mostly the differences will not be important. But if you want to know, I
have been compiling a list of tests here
<http://codecodex.com/wiki/index.php?title=Identifying_the_OS_Distribution>.

 

[r-w]

Hi,

I just found that you could use platform.system() to get the
underlying os used. But is there a way to get the distro used...?

--deostroll

platform.dist() returns
('debian', 'lenny/sid', '')
on my Ubuntu box.

Ross

 

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

At least the Gentoo-Test is not very reliable.

It's a wiki. You know what to do.

 

[JanC]

I just found that you could use platform.system() to get the
underlying os used. But is there a way to get the distro used...?

Major modern distros support 'lsb_release', I suppose:

$ lsb_release -i -r -c -d
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
Codename: jaunty


If that doesn't work; try '/etc/issue'.