[maemo-developers] Identifying platform in Python code

[From: Frantisek Dufka]

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.

Check /etc/osso_software_version file. This is the firmware version. 
RX-34 on the beginning means N800. Of course this is not very portable 
and may fail in future but currently it work for both N770 and N800.

Frantisek