From 200 Lines to 7: A Real Comparison Between Traditional Hardware Info Scripts and the HardView Library

🧠 From 200 Lines to 7: A Real Comparison Between Traditional Hardware Info Scripts and the HardView Library

One of the most tedious and error-prone tasks in Python is gathering detailed hardware information across platforms - especially if you want your script to work on both Windows and Linux.

If you've ever done this before, you know exactly what you're up against:

• Dozens of different libraries (psutil, platform, wmi, uuid, etc.)
• OS-specific shell commands (wmic, dmidecode, lscpu, etc.)
• Inconsistent formats and parsing headaches
• And most importantly: hundreds of lines of fragile, system-dependent code

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💥 Example: Traditional Python Code (Fragment)

Here’s just a small part of what a typical cross-platform hardware info script looks like:

import platform
import subprocess
import psutil

def run_cmd(cmd):
    try:
        return subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True, text=True).strip()
    except:
        return "N/A"

def get_cpu_info():
    if platform.system() == "Windows":
        return {
            "Name": run_cmd("wmic cpu get Name /value").split("=")[-1],
            "Cores": psutil.cpu_count(logical=False),
            "LogicalProcessors": psutil.cpu_count()
        }
    else:
        return {
            "Name": run_cmd("lscpu | grep 'Model name' | cut -d ':' -f2"),
            "Cores": psutil.cpu_count(logical=False),
            "LogicalProcessors": psutil.cpu_count()
        }

cpu_info = get_cpu_info()
print(cpu_info)

This is only the CPU part — and you'd need similar blocks for BIOS, system info, RAM, disks, and network interfaces. It quickly becomes hundreds of lines of duplicated logic, full of conditionals, subprocess calls, and error handling.

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⚡ Enter: HardView

Instead of hundreds of lines, how about just 7?

import HardView
import json
import pprint

# Get all hardware information
bios_info = json.loads(HardView.get_bios_info())
system_info = json.loads(HardView.get_system_info())
cpu_info = json.loads(HardView.get_cpu_info())
ram_info = json.loads(HardView.get_ram_info())
disk_info = json.loads(HardView.get_disk_info())
network_info = json.loads(HardView.get_network_info())

# Pretty print CPU information
pprint.pprint(cpu_info)

That’s it.

• No OS checks
• No command parsing
• No third-party dependencies
• All returned as clean, structured JSON
• Works on both Windows and Linux
• And under the hood? It’s written in pure C for ultra-fast execution

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🛠️ Why It Matters

Whether you’re building:

• System monitoring tools
• Diagnostic scripts
• Hardware auditing systems
• Security environments ...or you just need reliable hardware info without the mess

HardView simplifies it all into a clean Pythonic interface backed by raw native performance.

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📦 Install it in seconds:

pip install HardView

Try it. Replace hundreds of fragile lines with just one powerful library.

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💬 Questions? Feedback?

If this example helped you, or if you have any questions, — feel free to comment below.

If you encounter any issues or bugs or want to explore the source code, you can open an issue directly on GitHub:

🔗 GitHub: gafoo173/HardView