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Module: utils.sysinfo

Utilities for getting information about IPython and the system it’s running in.

5 Functions

IPython.utils.sysinfo.pkg_commit_hash(pkg_path: str) → tuple[str, str]

Get short form of commit hash given directory pkg_path

We get the commit hash from (in order of preference):

  • IPython.utils._sysinfo.commit

  • git output, if we are in a git repository

If these fail, we return a not-found placeholder tuple

Parameters:

pkg_path (str) – directory containing package only used for getting commit from active repo

Returns:

  • hash_from (str) – Where we got the hash from - description

  • hash_str (str) – short form of hash

IPython.utils.sysinfo.pkg_info(pkg_path: str) → dict

Return dict describing the context of this package

Parameters:

pkg_path (str) – path containing __init__.py for package

Returns:

context – with named parameters of interest

Return type:

dict

IPython.utils.sysinfo.get_sys_info() → dict

Return useful information about IPython and the system, as a dict.

IPython.utils.sysinfo.sys_info()

Return useful information about IPython and the system, as a string.

Examples

In [2]: print(sys_info())
{'commit_hash': '144fdae',      # random
 'commit_source': 'repository',
 'ipython_path': '/home/fperez/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython',
 'ipython_version': '0.11.dev',
 'os_name': 'posix',
 'platform': 'Linux-2.6.35-22-generic-i686-with-Ubuntu-10.10-maverick',
 'sys_executable': '/usr/bin/python',
 'sys_platform': 'linux2',
 'sys_version': '2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 15:52:39) \n[GCC 4.4.5]'}
IPython.utils.sysinfo.num_cpus()

DEPRECATED

Return the effective number of CPUs in the system as an integer.

This cross-platform function makes an attempt at finding the total number of available CPUs in the system, as returned by various underlying system and python calls.

If it can’t find a sensible answer, it returns 1 (though an error may make it return a large positive number that’s actually incorrect).