Setting *terse* to true causes the function to return only the absolute minimum
information needed to identify the platform.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.8
+ On macOS, the function now uses :func:`mac_ver`, if it returns a
+ non-empty release string, to get the macOS version rather than the darwin
+ version.
+
.. function:: processor()
if aliased:
system, release, version = system_alias(system, release, version)
+ if system == 'Darwin':
+ # macOS (darwin kernel)
+ macos_release = mac_ver()[0]
+ if macos_release:
+ # note: 'macOS' is different than 'MacOS' used below
+ system = 'macOS'
+ release = macos_release
+
if system == 'Windows':
# MS platforms
rel, vers, csd, ptype = win32_ver(version)
from test import support
class PlatformTest(unittest.TestCase):
+ def clear_caches(self):
+ platform._platform_cache.clear()
+ platform._sys_version_cache.clear()
+ platform._uname_cache = None
+
def test_architecture(self):
res = platform.architecture()
self.assertLess(V('0.960923'), V('2.2beta29'))
+ def test_macos(self):
+ self.addCleanup(self.clear_caches)
+
+ uname = ('Darwin', 'hostname', '17.7.0',
+ ('Darwin Kernel Version 17.7.0: '
+ 'Thu Jun 21 22:53:14 PDT 2018; '
+ 'root:xnu-4570.71.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64'),
+ 'x86_64', 'i386')
+ arch = ('64bit', '')
+ with mock.patch.object(platform, 'uname', return_value=uname), \
+ mock.patch.object(platform, 'architecture', return_value=arch):
+ for mac_ver, expected_terse, expected in [
+ # darwin: mac_ver() returns empty strings
+ (('', '', ''),
+ 'Darwin-17.7.0',
+ 'Darwin-17.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit'),
+ # macOS: mac_ver() returns macOS version
+ (('10.13.6', ('', '', ''), 'x86_64'),
+ 'macOS-10.13.6',
+ 'macOS-10.13.6-x86_64-i386-64bit'),
+ ]:
+ with mock.patch.object(platform, 'mac_ver',
+ return_value=mac_ver):
+ self.clear_caches()
+ self.assertEqual(platform.platform(terse=1), expected_terse)
+ self.assertEqual(platform.platform(), expected)
+
+
if __name__ == '__main__':
unittest.main()