def uname():

    """ Fairly portable uname interface. Returns a tuple
        of strings (system,node,release,version,machine,processor)
        identifying the underlying platform.

        Note that unlike the os.uname function this also returns
        possible processor information as an additional tuple entry.

        Entries which cannot be determined are set to ''.

    """
    global _uname_cache

    if _uname_cache is not None:
        return _uname_cache

    # Get some infos from the builtin os.uname API...
    try:
        system,node,release,version,machine = os.uname()

    except AttributeError:
        # Hmm, no uname... we'll have to poke around the system then.
        system = sys.platform
        release = ''
        version = ''
        node = _node()
        machine = ''
        processor = ''
        use_syscmd_ver = 1

        # Try win32_ver() on win32 platforms
        if system == 'win32':
            release,version,csd,ptype = win32_ver()
            if release and version:
                use_syscmd_ver = 0

        # Try the 'ver' system command available on some
        # platforms
        if use_syscmd_ver:
            system,release,version = _syscmd_ver(system)
            # Normalize system to what win32_ver() normally returns
            # (_syscmd_ver() tends to return the vendor name as well)
            if system == 'Microsoft Windows':
                system = 'Windows'

        # In case we still don't know anything useful, we'll try to
        # help ourselves
        if system in ('win32','win16'):
            if not version:
                if system == 'win32':
                    version = '32bit'
                else:
                    version = '16bit'
            system = 'Windows'

        elif system[:4] == 'java':
            release,vendor,vminfo,osinfo = java_ver()
            system = 'Java'
            version = string.join(vminfo,', ')
            if not version:
                version = vendor

        elif os.name == 'mac':
            release,(version,stage,nonrel),machine = mac_ver()
            system = 'MacOS'

    else:
        # System specific extensions
        if system == 'OpenVMS':
            # OpenVMS seems to have release and version mixed up
            if not release or release == '0':
                release = version
                version = ''
            # Get processor information
            try:
                import vms_lib
            except ImportError:
                pass
            else:
                csid, cpu_number = vms_lib.getsyi('SYI$_CPU',0)
                if (cpu_number >= 128):
                    processor = 'Alpha'
                else:
                    processor = 'VAX'
        else:
            # Get processor information from the uname system command
            processor = _syscmd_uname('-p','')

    # 'unknown' is not really any useful as information; we'll convert
    # it to '' which is more portable
    if system == 'unknown':
        system = ''
    if node == 'unknown':
        node = ''
    if release == 'unknown':
        release = ''
    if version == 'unknown':
        version = ''
    if machine == 'unknown':
        machine = ''
    if processor == 'unknown':
        processor = ''

    #  normalize name
    if system == 'Microsoft' and release == 'Windows':
        system = 'Windows'
        release = 'Vista'

    _uname_cache = system,node,release,version,machine,processor
    return _uname_cache

### Direct interfaces to some of the uname() return values
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