utils.sysinfo

Module: utils.sysinfo

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

Functions

IPython.utils.sysinfo.num_cpus()

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).

IPython.utils.sysinfo.pkg_commit_hash(pkg_path)

Get short form of commit hash given directory pkg_path

There should be a file called ‘COMMIT_INFO.txt’ in pkg_path. This is a file in INI file format, with at least one section: commit hash, and two variables archive_subst_hash and install_hash. The first has a substitution pattern in it which may have been filled by the execution of git archive if this is an archive generated that way. The second is filled in by the installation, if the installation is from a git archive.

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

• A substituted value in archive_subst_hash
• A written commit hash value in ``install_hash`
• git output, if we are in a git repository

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

Parameters :

pkg_path : str

directory containing package

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)

Return dict describing the context of this package

Parameters :

pkg_path : str

path containing __init__.py for package

Returns :

context : dict

with named parameters of interest

IPython.utils.sysinfo.sys_info()

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