sysconfig.get_platform()

sysconfig.get_platform()

Return a string that identifies the current platform.

This is used mainly to distinguish platform-specific build directories and platform-specific built distributions. Typically includes the OS name and version and the architecture (as supplied by os.uname()), although the exact information included depends on the OS; e.g. for IRIX the architecture isn’t particularly important (IRIX only runs on SGI hardware), but for Linux the kernel version isn’t particularly important.

Examples of returned values:

• linux-i586
• linux-alpha (?)
• solaris-2.6-sun4u
• irix-5.3
• irix64-6.2

Windows will return one of:

• win-amd64 (64bit Windows on AMD64 (aka x86_64, Intel64, EM64T, etc)
• win-ia64 (64bit Windows on Itanium)
• win32 (all others - specifically, sys.platform is returned)

Mac OS X can return:

• macosx-10.6-ppc
• macosx-10.4-ppc64
• macosx-10.3-i386
• macosx-10.4-fat

For other non-POSIX platforms, currently just returns sys.platform.