Python snippets for quickly finding the platform type, cpu and memory stats of a Linux machine.

cpu_info.py

###### CPU Info of a Linux machine.
### Picked from: http://echorand.me/site/notes/articles/python_linux/article.html
from __future__ import print_function
from collections import OrderedDict
import pprint
 
def cpuinfo():
 cpuinfo=OrderedDict()
 procinfo=OrderedDict()
 nprocs = 0
 with open('/proc/cpuinfo') as f:
  for line in f:
   if not line.strip():
    cpuinfo['proc%s' % nprocs] = procinfo
    nprocs=nprocs+1
    procinfo=OrderedDict()
   else:
    if len(line.split(':')) == 2:
     procinfo[line.split(':')[0].strip()] = line.split(':')[1].strip()
    else:
     procinfo[line.split(':')[0].strip()] = ''
 return cpuinfo

cpuinfo = cpuinfo()
for processor in cpuinfo.keys():
  print(cpuinfo[processor]['model name'])

mem_info.py

###### Memory Info of a Linux machine.
from __future__ import print_function
from collections import OrderedDict

def meminfo():
 meminfo=OrderedDict()
 with open('/proc/meminfo') as f:
  for line in f:
   meminfo[line.split(':')[0]] = line.split(':')[1].strip()
 return meminfo

meminfo = meminfo()
print('Total memory: {0}'.format(meminfo['MemTotal']))
print('Free memory: {0}'.format(meminfo['MemFree']))

platform_info.py

###### Platform info and distribution of a Linux machine.
import platform
print(platform.uname())
print(platform.linux_distribution())