Distro
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distro is a Python package that reports distribution information about the running operating system. It replaces platform.linux_distribution, which was removed from the standard library, and reads /etc/os-release, lsb_release, and others to return the distribution name, version, and codename. It can also be run as a command-line tool.
Distro - an OS platform information API
Example
>>> import distro
>>> distro.name(pretty=True)
'CentOS Linux 8'
>>> distro.id()
'centos'
>>> distro.version(best=True)
'8.4.2105'