os.uname()

os.uname()

Returns information identifying the current operating system. The return value is an object with five attributes:

• sysname - operating system name
• nodename - name of machine on network (implementation-defined)
• release - operating system release
• version - operating system version
• machine - hardware identifier

For backwards compatibility, this object is also iterable, behaving like a five-tuple containing sysname, nodename, release, version, and machine in that order.

Some systems truncate nodename to 8 characters or to the leading component; a better way to get the hostname is socket.gethostname() or even socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname()).

Availability: recent flavors of Unix.