From: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 13:26:02 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: swc-installation-test-2.py: Use the more portable platform.uname()
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d250770efbe9931f77da59fd3d9cbbed1e37a859;p=swc-workshop.git

swc-installation-test-2.py: Use the more portable platform.uname()

From the docs [1,2]:

  platform.uname():
    Fairly portable uname interface...  Entries which cannot be
    determined are set to ''.

  os.uname():
    ... Availability: recent flavors of Unix.

[1]: http://docs.python.org/2/library/platform.html#platform.uname
[2]: http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.uname
---

diff --git a/swc-installation-test-2.py b/swc-installation-test-2.py
index a1622ea..f0ec903 100755
--- a/swc-installation-test-2.py
+++ b/swc-installation-test-2.py
@@ -483,10 +483,7 @@ def print_system_info():
     print('System information')
     print('==================')
     _print_info('os.name', _os.name)
-    try:
-        _print_info('os.uname', _os.uname())
-    except:
-        pass
+    _print_info('os.uname', _platform.uname())
     _print_info('platform', _sys.platform)
     _print_info('platform+', _platform.platform())
     _print_info('prefix', _sys.prefix)