all Python 3platformfunction

platform.system_alias()

system and machine

Translates a (system, release, version) triple into familiar marketing names, e.g. SunOS 5 becomes Solaris 2.

Syntax

system, release, version = platform.system_alias(system, release, version)

The function is pure: it queries nothing and only renames what you pass in, so its result is the same on any machine. For Linux, Windows and macOS it almost always returns the triple unchanged; the renaming targets old Unix systems. platform(aliased=True) uses it.

Examples

import platform
print(platform.system_alias('SunOS', '5.11', 'x'))  # → ('Solaris', '2.11', 'x')
print(platform.system_alias('Linux', '6.8.0', '#1'))  # → ('Linux', '6.8.0', '#1')

See also

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