PyArchey2

PyArchey2 drops support for Python 2.7. The motivation for PyArchey2 is performance. Main changes includes multi-threading to speed up information gathering and uses f-strings for string formatting. Also, added logging and bytes labels are expanded to yottabytes.

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This is based off the archey command (which is also python) distributed by various linux, unix, and osx package managers. In order to avoid a naming conflict between them, I called this pyarchey.

Currently, pyarchey supports logos for Arch, Fedora, LinuxMint, Ubuntu, SUSE, Debian, Raspbian, Gentoo, OpenBSD, generic Linux, and Slackware.

[kevin@Tardis soccer2]$ pyarchey -z

                  ##             User: kevin
               ####              Hostname: Tardis.local
               ##                IP: 192.168.1.4 / 58:B0:35:F2:25:D8
       #######    #######        OS: Mac OSX 10.10.5 x86_64
     ######################      Kernel: 14.5.0
    #####################        Uptime: 13 days 14 hrs 45 mins
    ####################         Shell: /bin/bash
    ####################         Processes: 214 running
    #####################        Packages: 113
     ######################      CPU: Intel Core2 Duo P8600 @ 2.40GHz
      ####################       CPU Usage: [17.8, 13.9]
        ################         RAM: 7.0 GB/ 8.0 GB
          ###     ####           Disk: 219.0 / 233.0 GB



pi@calculon ~/github/pyarchey $ pyarchey -z

        .~~.   .~~.      User: pi
       '. \ ' ' / .'     Hostname: calculon
        .~ .~~~..~.      IP: 192.168.1.17 / B8:27:EB:0A:5A:17
       : .~.'~'.~. :     OS: Raspbian 7 (wheezy) armv6l
      ~ (   ) (   ) ~    Kernel: 4.1.6+
     ( : '~'.~.'~' : )   Uptime: 15 days 21 hrs 23 mins
      ~ .~ (   ) ~. ~    Shell: /bin/bash
       (  : '~' :  )     Processes: 73 running
        '~ .~~~. ~'      Packages: 960
            '~'          CPU: ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l)
                         CPU Usage: [1.0]
                         RAM: 216.0 MB/ 229.0 MB
                         Disk: 4.0 / 15.0 GB


pi@calculon ~/github/pyarchey $ pyarchey -zj
{"Kernel": "4.1.6+", "Uptime": "15 days 21 hrs 39 mins", "Shell": "/bin/bash",
"Disk": "4.0 / 15.0 GB", "IP": "192.168.1.17 / B8:27:EB:0A:5A:17", "Hostname":
"calculon", "Processes": "73 running", "RAM": "215.0 MB/ 229.0 MB", "User": "pi",
"CPU Usage": "[3.9]", "Packages": 960, "OS": "Raspbian 7 (wheezy) armv6l", "CPU":
"ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l)"}

Requirements

Some of the custom code was removed and psutil was used to provide a cross-platform solution.

Install

The preferred way is to use pypi.org

pip install pyarchey2

You can also do:

git clone https://github.com/renyi/pyarchey2.git
cd pyarchey
python setup.py install

If you plan on doing some development, instead of install you can do develop.

Usage

To run:

pyarchey

args:

`-d, --display`	display ascii logos for all distributions
`-h, --help`	help
`-j, --json`	output json of system info, nothing is printed to the screen
`-z, --zeroconfig`
	add `.local` to a hostname for zeroconfig to find IP address easier
`--verbose`	enables more verbose messages
`--debug`	print debug messages

History

As far as I am aware, this was started by @djmelik which was then forked by @mikeantonacci, and then forked by Kevin (@walchko) and then by me.

Contributions

Kevin (walchko) - Orignal fork
Dimitris Zlatanidis (dslackw) - Slackware support
mikeantonacci - fixed tab errors
Alessandro-Barbieri - Gentoo support

Changes

Date	Version	Notes
29 Mar 15	0.4.0	Forked
4 Apr 15	0.5.0	Added Apple logo, changed custom code to `psutil`
11 Apr 15	0.6.0	Added commandline args for: displaying ascii logos, json output, zeroconfig
26 Aug 15	0.6.2	Minor fixes
21 Sep 15	0.6.3	OSX now reports OSX version and minor other fixes
22 Sep 15	0.6.4	Arch linux fix
23 Sep 15	0.6.5	Refactoring to remove some command line programs
23 Sep 15	0.6.6	Bug fix
6 Oct 15	0.6.7	Bug fix with Python 3
20 Oct 15	0.6.8	Colored the leaves on Rpi ascii image
3 Jun 16	0.7	Bug fix with Python 3 and some PEP8 fixes
19 Jul 19	2.0.0	Dropped Python 2 support. Added multithreading and queues to speed up information gathering. Added logging. Allow output() to override json.dumps(). Use f-strings for string formatting. Added format_bytes to fix some bugs and expand labels to yottabyte.