Getting processor information in Python

Question

Using Python is there any way to find out the processor information... (I need the name)

I need the name of the processor that the interpreter is running on. I check

Answer 1

I tried out various solutions here. cat /proc/cpuinf gives a huge amount of output for a multicore machine, many pages long, platform.processor() seems to give you very little. Using Linux and Python 3, the following returns quite a useful summary of about twenty lines:

import subprocess
print((subprocess.check_output("lscpu", shell=True).strip()).decode())