Find Information About Operating System in Python

In this example, you will learn find operated system information using python.

In order to make an application cross-platform, there may be times when you want to inspect the operating system and take a different action depending on whether it is Linux, Mac, Windows, or other.

These examples will show you how to find relevant information about operating system using python platform modules.

Example :

    
#python program to find operating system information
import platform

print(platform.system())  # e.g. Windows, Linux, Darwin
print(platform.architecture())  # e.g. 64-bit
print(platform.machine())  # e.g. x86_64
print(platform.node())  # hostname
print(platform.processor())  # processor information
print(platform.release())  # version of os 
       

Output :

    
Windows
('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
AMD64
LAPTOP-M4EEHVNS
Intel64 Family 6 Model 165 Stepping 2, GenuineIntel
10 
       

Explanation :

Those are common function of platform module in python which are used our program. The platform.system() function returns os name. In this case it's windows.