From: jblaine at shell2.shore.net (Jeff Blaine)
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 16:36:15 GMT
Subject: An uname - like call?
References: <Pine.SOL.3.91-941213.990519170229.25586F-100000@dust0.dur.ac.uk>
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>elvira:~(ndgy)python
>Python 1.5.1 (#1, Jan 20 1999, 20:01:05)  [GCC egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (e 
>on linux2
>Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>>>
>
>How can I get this string in a script? It should be annoying to fork a
>os.system("uname -a") since the OS ID is already in the interpreter
>somehow. 

import sys
print sys.version




