Re: Identifying platform in Python code
Daniel Stone wrote: On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:49:39PM +0200, ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: Jeffrey Barish wrote: How do I determine in my code that I am running on the N800? Neither os.name nor sys.platform gets the job done. The former returns posix, the latter linux2, and I get the same strings when I run on Ubuntu. Check /etc/osso_software_version file. This is the firmware version. RX-34 on the beginning means N800. Of course this is not very portable and may fail in future but currently it work for both N770 and N800. If you're going to check the filesystem, hit up /proc/component_version. Right, forgot about that one. /proc/component_version is better for knowing specific hardware, osso_software_version is better if you are interested in which specific firmware is installed (and in fact for N770 hacker edition it contains RX-34 by mistake so component_version is safer bet). But the real question is why you want to know it in the first place. Maybe there is better way to check some specific feature instead of checking hardware version. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: Identifying platform in Python code
Frantisek Dufka wrote: But the real question is why you want to know it in the first place. Maybe there is better way to check some specific feature instead of checking hardware version. Thanks, all, for the informative answers. Another good answer came from Mark Waite, who forgot to copy the mailing list: the Python platform module provides some useful functions. I need to know the platform so that I can adjust the GUI. For example, on the N800, I probably want to open in fullscreen mode. It appears that I will also have to adjust spacing of some GUI elements. For now, I am using platform.machine(), although I still wonder why one of os.name or sys.platform doesn't return maemo. -- Jeffrey Barish ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: Identifying platform in Python code
Frantisek Dufka a écrit : Right, forgot about that one. /proc/component_version is better for knowing specific hardware, osso_software_version is better if you are interested in which specific firmware is installed (and in fact for N770 hacker edition it contains RX-34 by mistake so component_version is safer bet). But the real question is why you want to know it in the first place. Maybe there is better way to check some specific feature instead of checking hardware version. I am not the OP but I also had the same need a while ago and was happy to see these answers. I had found the uname hack by myself but maybe the file checking is better as it saves importing another module. My specific problem was determining the screen resolution at the start of a pyGame app, to run it fullscreen on the tablet, and windowed on other platforms. This does not seem possible from pyGame itself, the only workaround I could find was to also import gtk just to use its gtk.gdk.screen_width() and gtk.gdk.screen_height() functions once. As this is a lot of overhead for the tablet, I preferred to detect that platform first and set the values manually, and only use gtk detection for more powerful platforms. If there's a better way I'd love to know it :-) ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: Identifying platform in Python code
Marius Gedminas a écrit : On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:42:41PM +0200, Fred Pacquier wrote: My specific problem was determining the screen resolution at the start of a pyGame app, to run it fullscreen on the tablet, and windowed on other platforms. This does not seem possible from pyGame itself, How about taking the largest one from pygame.display.list_modes()? Thanks Marius for the heads-up : I had toyed with that function while exploring the pyGame API, but only on the desktop, and had found it next to useless, at least with Windows. I had not thought of trying it under maemo, where it returns only the (800,480) tuple. So it might be a good IT detector with no additional import or filesystem access. Both approaches will fail when you have a dual-head system -- you'll see a large combined display size (e.g. 2308x1024 for a 1024x768+1280x1024 dual-head mode that crashes pygame when you try to switch to it). With gtk.gdk you can at least find the number of screens and their resolutions. Hmm, I'll admit I hadn't even *thought* of such a possibility :-) ATM it's not a problem because the app is mostly for my own use, I just need a common code base that will adapt to the various platforms and screens I use it on - none of which is multi-headed. But I'll keep it in mind if/when that happens... Thanks, fp ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: Identifying platform in Python code
On Jun 4, 2007, at 12:00, Jeffrey Barish wrote: How do I determine in my code that I am running on the N800? Neither os.name nor sys.platform gets the job done. The former returns posix, the latter linux2, and I get the same strings when I run on Ubuntu. You can parse it out of something like import commands id = commands.getoutput(uname -a) if id has Linux Nokia-N800 in it, it's an N800 if id has Linux Nokia770 in it, it's a 770 This may change over time with newer versions of the OS but it works for now. -- Allan Doyle http://museum.mit.edu/mwow +1.781.433.2695 ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: Identifying platform in Python code
Jeffrey Barish wrote: How do I determine in my code that I am running on the N800? Neither os.name nor sys.platform gets the job done. The former returns posix, the latter linux2, and I get the same strings when I run on Ubuntu. Check /etc/osso_software_version file. This is the firmware version. RX-34 on the beginning means N800. Of course this is not very portable and may fail in future but currently it work for both N770 and N800. Frantisek ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: Identifying platform in Python code
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:49:39PM +0200, ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: Jeffrey Barish wrote: How do I determine in my code that I am running on the N800? Neither os.name nor sys.platform gets the job done. The former returns posix, the latter linux2, and I get the same strings when I run on Ubuntu. Check /etc/osso_software_version file. This is the firmware version. RX-34 on the beginning means N800. Of course this is not very portable and may fail in future but currently it work for both N770 and N800. If you're going to check the filesystem, hit up /proc/component_version. Cheers, Daniel signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
