Is there a reliable way to determine the system CPU architecture using Python? [duplicate]

Question

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How can I return system information in Python?

For example, to see if a Solaris is a Solaris X86 or Solaris SPARC?

Answer 1

>>> import platform
>>> platform.system()
'Darwin'
>>> platform.processor()
'i386'
>>> platform.platform()
'Darwin-10.8.0-i386-64bit'
>>> platform.machine()
'i386'
>>> platform.version()
'Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun  7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386'
>>> platform.uname()
('Darwin', 'Hostname.local', '10.8.0', 'Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun  7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386', 'i386', 'i386')