platinfo 0.15.0

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).