Getting processor information in Python

Question

Using Python is there any way to find out the processor information... (I need the name)

I need the name of the processor that the interpreter is running on. I check

Answer 1

[Answer]: this works the best

 import cpuinfo
 cpuinfo.get_cpu_info()['brand_raw'] # get only the brand name

or

 import cpuinfo
 cpuinfo.get_cpu_info()

To get all info about the cpu

{'python_version': '3.7.6.final.0 (64 bit)',
 'cpuinfo_version': [7, 0, 0],
 'cpuinfo_version_string': '7.0.0',
 'arch': 'X86_64',
 'bits': 64,
 'count': 2,
 'arch_string_raw': 'x86_64',
 'vendor_id_raw': 'GenuineIntel',
 'brand_raw': 'Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.00GHz',
 'hz_advertised_friendly': '2.0000 GHz',
 'hz_actual_friendly': '2.0002 GHz',
 'hz_advertised': [2000000000, 0],
 'hz_actual': [2000176000, 0],
 'stepping': 3,
 'model': 85,
 'family': 6,
 'flags': ['3dnowprefetch',
  'abm',
  'adx', ...more

Answer 2

For Linux, and backwards compatibility with Python (not everyone has cpuinfo), you can parse through /proc/cpuinfo directly. To get the processor speed, try:

# Take any float trailing "MHz", some whitespace, and a colon.
speeds = re.search("MHz\s*: (\d+\.?\d*)", cpuinfo_content)

Note the necessary use of \s for whitespace.../proc/cpuinfo actually has tab characters and I toiled for hours working with sed until I came up with:

sed -rn 's/cpu MHz[ \t]*: ([0-9]+\.?[0-9]*)/\1/gp' /proc/cpuinfo

I lacked the \t and it drove me mad because I either matched the whole file or nothing.

Try similar regular expressions for the other fields you need:

# Take any string after the specified field name and colon.
re.search("field name\s*: (.+)", cpuinfo_content)  

Answer 3

The platform.processor() function returns the processor name as a string.

>>> import platform
>>> platform.processor()
'Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6, GenuineIntel'

Answer 4

The if-cases for Windows i.e platform.processor() just gives the description or family name of the processor e.g. Intel64 Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3.

I used:

  if platform.system() == "Windows":
        family = platform.processor()
        name = subprocess.check_output(["wmic","cpu","get", "name"]).strip().split("\n")[1]
        return ' '.join([name, family])

to get the actual cpu model which is the the same output as the if-blocks for Darwin and Linux, e.g. Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz Intel64 Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3, GenuineIntel