[maemo-developers] Identifying platform in Python code

[From: Allan Doyle]

On Jun 4, 2007, at 12:00, Jeffrey Barish wrote:

> How do I determine in my code that I am running on the N800?  Neither
> os.name nor sys.platform gets the job done.  The former returns  
> "posix",
> the latter "linux2", and I get the same strings when I run on Ubuntu.

You can parse it out of something like

import commands
id = commands.getoutput("uname -a")

if id has "Linux Nokia-N800" in it, it's an N800
if id has "Linux Nokia770" in it, it's a 770

This may change over time with newer versions of the OS but it works  
for now.


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