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Detect OS with python

I was looking around trying to find a solution to my issue, the best I could find was this:

from sys import platform
if platform == "linux" or platform == "linux2":
    # linux
elif platform == "darwin":          
    # OS X
elif platform == "win32":             
    # Windows...

Does anybody know how I could differentiate a Linux PC from android as android Is based off of Linux. And if this is possible, how could I differentiate Mac OS from iOS

Solution

  • Use the platform module:

    import platform
print(platform.system())
print(platform.release())
print(platform.version())

    Note that a system running on Mac will return 'Darwin' for platform.system()

    platform.platform() will return extremely detailed data, such as 

    'Linux-3.3.0-8.fc16.x86_64-x86_64-with-fedora-16-Verne'