distro-agnostic-get_os-release

get_os-release.py

filenames = ['/etc/os-release'] # add any other distro locations for os-release

def read_release():
    for filename in filenames:
        if os.path.isfile(filename):
            with open('/etc/os-release', 'r') as relfile:
                for line in relfile:
                    if('NAME ' in line):
                        release_dict(line.split(' ')[1])

def release_dict(file_loc,name):
    ddict = {}
    delim = get_delimiter()
    with open(filename,'r') as relfile:
        for line in relfile:
            ll = line.strip('\n').replace('\"', '').split(delim)
            if len(ll) > 1:
                ddict[ll[0].lower()] = ll[1]
    return ddict
        
def get_delimiter():
    if("Red Hat" in name):
        return "="
    elif("Ubuntu" in name):
        return " "
    elif("Elementary" in name):
        return " "
    else
        return ":"