[maemo-developers] Identifying platform in Python code

[From: Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:49:39PM +0200, ext Frantisek Dufka wrote:
> 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.

If you're going to check the filesystem, hit up /proc/component_version.

Cheers,
Daniel
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