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Is there an easy way to let a python program check if it running on the raspberry Pi or the pc running windows? I would like to use this to automaticly use the rpi.gpio functions in my code.

I am looking for a similair implementations as i use for debug modes:

if __debug__:
   import [some library]

I already found some examples that use os.uname(), but after testing this in python3 idle i found out that this was not working for me.

Does anybody know a good and simple way to implement this?

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  • It is difficult to imagine any program requiring RPi.GPIO which would run on Windows. Although having said that you can access the Pi remotely using pigpio.
    – Milliways
    May 11, 2022 at 11:48
  • The project is with OpenCV and has some output via the gpio, but i am mostly testing the OpenCV part on my pc. since the pc does not have to use or can use rpi.gpio i would like to be able to run the code without commenting all rpio.gpio stuff out.
    – Rens
    May 11, 2022 at 14:07

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Try sys.platform.

import sys
print(sys.platform)

On my Linux laptop it reports linux2.

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  • Thanks @joan, that solutions works great for me!
    – Rens
    May 11, 2022 at 14:55
  • @Rens: Please read this when you have a moment.
    – Seamus
    May 11, 2022 at 17:38
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    @Seamus i don't have the reputation to upvote it, but did accept the answer. Thanks for the reminder.
    – Rens
    May 12, 2022 at 14:05
  • @Rens: Huh! Didn't know rep was required to upvote, but I just upvoted your Q, so that moves you in the right direction :)
    – Seamus
    May 12, 2022 at 23:14

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