Check Linux distribution name

by

Here‘s what I found:

platform.linux_distribution

Tries to determine the name of the
Linux OS distribution name.

It says platform.dist is deprecated since 2.6, you have to use platform.linux_distribution in Python 2 (but it is also deprecated in Python 3.5).

Related Contents:

  1. open() in Python does not create a file if it doesn’t exist
  2. UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf8’ codec can’t decode byte 0x9c
  3. Install tkinter for Python [duplicate]
  4. How to activate virtualenv in Linux?
  5. How to get Linux console window width in Python
  6. No such file or directory “limits.h” when installing Pillow on Alpine Linux
  7. docker.errors.DockerException: Error while fetching server API version
  8. How do you set your pythonpath in an already-created virtualenv?
  9. Getting MAC Address
  10. Python subprocess.Popen “OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory”
  11. How to upgrade pip3?
  12. How to configure ChromeDriver to initiate Chrome browser in Headless mode through Selenium?
  13. Pycharm and sys.argv arguments
  14. How do I install python on alpine linux?
  15. What is different between makedirs and mkdir of os?
  16. fcntl substitute on Windows
  17. using pip3: module “importlib._bootstrap” has no attribute “SourceFileLoader”
  18. Call to operating system to open url?
  19. what does –enable-optimizations do while compiling python?
  20. How to get the PYTHONPATH in shell?
  21. Run Python script at startup in Ubuntu
  22. How to check existence of a folder with python and then remove it?
  23. How to use export with Python on Linux
  24. ImageMagick not authorized to convert PDF to an image
  25. How can I activate a virtualenv in Linux?
  26. Pip is not working for Python 3.10 on Ubuntu
  27. How to install a module for all users with pip on linux?
  28. Detect face then autocrop pictures
  29. Packaging a Python script on Linux into a Windows executable
  30. Anaconda: disable prompt change
  31. Linux command-line call not returning what it should from os.system?
  32. RuntimeError: Invalid DISPLAY variable
  33. conda command will prompt error: “Bad Interpreter: No such file or directory”
  34. What does “the following packages will be superseded by a higher priority channel” mean?
  35. How to install python developer package?
  36. After Anaconda installation, conda command fails with “ImportError: no module named conda.cli”
  37. Python logging – check location of log files?
  38. run a python script in terminal without the python command
  39. cat, grep and cut – translated to python
  40. Cannot “pip install cryptography” in Docker Alpine Linux 3.3 with OpenSSL 1.0.2g and Python 2.7
  41. How to automatically install required packages from a Python script as necessary?
  42. python GDAL 2.1 installation on Ubuntu 16.04
  43. Compare two images the python/linux way
  44. Why does Python “preemptively” hang when trying to calculate a very large number?
  45. how to find the owner of a file or directory in python
  46. command ‘x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc’ failed with exit status 1
  47. Why XGrabKey generates extra focus-out and focus-in events?
  48. How to use the same Python virtualenv on both Windows and Linux
  49. What is the return value of subprocess.call()?
  50. What is the difference between installing a package using pip vs. apt-get?

Leave a Comment