python3中platform.dist和platform.linux_distribution的替代方法是什么

Question

It says here both Platform.dist() and platform.linux_distribution has been deprecated in version 3.5 and will be removed in version 3.7 (Current version 3.6.5 with 3.7 in preview mode). and I can't find any way around on how to find/get linux distro name in python3!

Any way? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I didn't search this a lot, but if you want the version informations, an easy way, maybe what python's platform.linux_distribution did anyway, would be to read files

/etc/*-release or /proc/version

and see what you can get from them. ^^'

So long that it's not in a performance-wise critical section of the code.

Have a nice day!

Answer 2

After a small search, I found it here and it can be installed with pip install distro . Then import distro instead of the import platform .

import distro 
print(distro.linux_distribution())

Output:

('Ubuntu', '18.04', 'Bionic Beaver')

I've tested in python versions 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 and it's working perfectly.

Answer 3

This pip package solves it. [Not limited to python 3.7 issue]

https://github.com/nir0s/distro