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Python 3 Script to Detect Hardware OS Name & Version & System Information Using Platform Module
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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So in this video I will show you how to
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detect uh hardware operating system name
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system information print inside uh the
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command line using a simple Python
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script Uh I will show you in this
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tutorial how to use the built-in
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operating system module which is this OS
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module So as I run the Python script in
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the terminal it will print out
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everything related to the hardware
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operating system So let me just run this
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Python script So as I run this Python
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script you will see all this information
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will be displayed such as the what sort
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of hardware you are using So we are
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using the Windows machine This is my uh
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laptop name Here you will see it will
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give you all the details right here The
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version that we are using and now it
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will also print out what sort of machine
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you're using So we using a Windows
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machine operating system version
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platform Windows
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32 all sort of information it will
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display So for displaying this
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information we have this built-in
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operating system module So first of all
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we
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simply import this operating system
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module After that we can simply print
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out the name of the system by simply
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typing it has a property called as name
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So it will display the name of the
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operating
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system So if I just uh run the script
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here you will see it will display the
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ent which is
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the NT is a family of pro operating
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system for specifically for Windows So
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it will display the operating system
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name and then if you want to display
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what sort of platform that you are using
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So we can simply import the platform
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module and then we can print out uh what
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sort of platform that you are using So
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platform dot
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uame So this is actually the function So
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now it will print out the platform that
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you're using
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Also we can display the operating system
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name as well by using
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platform dot and it contains the system
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function which will display the system
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information and similarly we can display
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the operating system version as well
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Similarly it contains
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the function for version for displaying
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the version
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So if I run this now you will see it
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will display the windows here we using
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the Windows version this is the
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operating system version 10.0
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0 it will
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display and then if you also want to
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display what sort of system that you're
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using so we can import the system module
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and then we can display the platform
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operating system platform So it contains
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the property here of platform and then
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we can even print out the version as
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well by simply saying system dot
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version what sort of version that you're
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using So if I run this now you will see
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it will print out Windows 32 win 32 and
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this is the operating system version
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which is 3.10.5
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So so this is actually essentially the
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bay by by which you can actually display
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hardware operating system related
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information of your respective operating
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system inside
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Python So you can use the built-in
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system module built-in platform module
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and built-in operating system module So
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thank you very much for watching this
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video and also check out my website
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freemediatools.com
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uh which contains uh thousands of tools
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