System

How To: Basic::System

• Get python version
• Display your details in three lines
• Determine 32bit or 64bit OS
• Get os name, platform and release information
• Locate python site-packages
• Call an external command in python
• Find out the number of cpus using
• Determine profiling of python programs
• Print to stderr
• Get environment variables
• Get the current username
• Find local ip addresses using python’s stdlib
• Get height and width of the console window
• Get the copyright information
• Get the command-line arguments
• If system is a big- or little endian platform
• Find the available built-in modules
• Get the size of an object in bytes
• Print the current call stack
• Get the system time
• Clear the screen or terminal
• Get the host name
• Access and print a url’s content to the console
• Get system command output
• Get the groupId, userId, groupId of the current process
• Get the users environment
• Get largest and smallest int, long, float
• Get the actual module object for a given object
• Validate an IP address
• Find the operating system name, platform
• Determine 32bit or 64bit mode of python shell
• Find the location of python module sources