What is platform.uname() in Python?

Overview

The platform module in Python provides functions that access information of the underlying platform (operating system).

The platform.uname() method returns a named tuple consisting of the following attributes:

1. system
2. node
3. release
4. version
5. machine
6. processor

Method signature

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uname()

Parameters

This method takes no parameters.

Code

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Explanation

• Line 1: We import the platform module.
• Line 3: We retrieve the system’s uname using the uname() method.