Introduction

PyCPUID reads the information available from the CPUID assembly instruction and makes it available to any Python program.

It could be used to decide on some codepath based on whether the target computer supports SSE2. :

import pycpuid
if pycpuid.HAS_SSE2:
    import foobar_sse2 as foobar
else:
    import foobar

It is not the goal of PyCPUID to provide a full report of all CPUID information available. It's merely a way to get raw access to the machine instruction from within Python. Some functions are provided for translation to something human readable, but this is far from complete. Full details on how to interpret the raw data can be found in the application notes of Intel and AMD.

Project maintained by Flight Data Services and released under the GNU Lesses General Public License (LGPL-2.1).

Installation

Package requires pip for installation. :

pip install PyCPUID

If you're doing this on Windows you'll need to make sure you have a C++ compiler installed and properly configured.

Source Code

Source code is available from GitHub:

• https://github.com/organizations/FlightDataServices/PyCPUID

Documentation

Documentation is available from the Python Package Index:

• http://packages.python.org/PyCPUID/

Using PyCPUID

There's not much to it, really. PyCPUID is just a bunch of module constants. Just import the module and access the constants. The HAS_FOOBAR constants are Boolean flags to indicate whether the feature is available. The function features() returns a list of all the available features as strings. There are some other functions like vendor() and brand_string() you can use to identify the CPU. :

import pycpuid
print "has SSE2:", pycpuid.HAS_SSE2
print "all availabe features:", pycpuid.features()
print "brand string:", pycpuid.brand_string()