Detect OS with python

python-3.x operating-system differentiation
Vortetty picture Vortetty · May 17, 2019 · Viewed 7.1k times · Source

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

Answer

Alec picture Alec · May 17, 2019

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'

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