获取Linux Python的通用操作系统名称

Question

I am trying to get Linux distro name like centos, fedora, ubuntu, SuSE etc in python.
I made use of platform module.
My code is

import platform
version = platform.platform(aliased=0)
version = version.split('-with-',1)[1].split('-',1)[0]
print version

It gives me the desired output. But is there any simpler way other than this, or any module which gives me the name directly?

Answer 1

Try this:

>>> import platform
>>> platform.linux_distribution()
('Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server', '6.6', 'Santiago')

Answer 2

what about platform.linux_distribution?

In [1]: import platform                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
In [2]: platform.linux_distribution()                                                                                                                         
Out[2]: ('Fedora', '21', 'Twenty One')                                                                                                                        

Answer 3

Try the following code:

>>> import os
>>> cmd = "lsb_release -si"
>>> os.system(cmd)
Ubuntu