platinfo 0.15.0

platinfo: A small library from getting information on the current platform

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This module determines and returns standardized names for platforms, where the "standard" is Trent Mick's reasoning :) from experience building ActivePython on a fairly large number of platforms.

The driving goal is to provide platform names that are:

• relatively short
• readable (as much as possible making matching the given name to an actually machine self-explanatory)
• be capable enough to produce all names needed to distinguish all platform-specific application builds
• generally safe for usage in filenames
• not ugly (e.g. "MSWin32" is ugly)

A simple usage example:

>>> from platinfo import PlatInfo
>>> pi = PlatInfo()
>>> pi.os
'macosx'
>>> pi.arch
'x86'
>>> pi.name()
'macosx-x86'

Currently this has fairly wide OS coverage (Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, OpenBSD).

• Author: Trent Mick
• Home Page: http://code.google.com/p/platinfo/
• License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
• Platform: any
• Categories
  • Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
  • Intended Audience :: Developers
  • License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
  • Operating System :: OS Independent
  • Programming Language :: Python
  • Programming Language :: Python :: 2.4
  • Programming Language :: Python :: 2.5
  • Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
  • Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
  • Programming Language :: Python :: 3
  • Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
• Package Index Owner: trentm
• DOAP record: platinfo-0.15.0.xml