Getting name of windows computer running python script?

Question

I have a couple Windows computers on my network that will be running a python script. A different set of configuration options should be used in the script depending on which computer is running this script.

How would I get that computer name in the python script?

Let's say the script was running on a computer named DARK-TOWER, I'd like to write something like this:

>>> python.library.get_computer_name() 'DARK-TOWER' 

Is there a standard or third party library I can use?

Answer 1

It turns out there are three options (including the two already answered earlier):

>>> import platform >>> import socket >>> import os >>> platform.node() 'DARK-TOWER' >>> socket.gethostname() 'DARK-TOWER' >>> os.environ['COMPUTERNAME'] 'DARK-TOWER' 

Answer 2

import socket socket.gethostname()