Programatically retrieve device on which the script is running

[honekamp]

Please pardon me if this topic has already been discussed, but is there any way to programatically find out whether a script is running on an iPhone or on an iPad and make the script behave accordingly?

Thank you,

Uwe

[mikael]

@honekamp, googled ”pythonista device info” and found this.

[JonB]

sys.platform gives 'ios' in pythonista.
platform.machine() returns the hardware, such as Ipad3,3 on my devuce, and probably the iphone version on others.

Of course, you can also checkui.screen_size.

[honekamp]

@JonB Thanks for the hint, platform.machine() does the job for me. I read about it in the documentation and falsely assumed that this was about the processor architecture. Should have given it a try.