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Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). Return string-valued system configuration values. name specifies the configuration value to retrieve; it may be a string which is the name of a defined system value; these names are specified in a number of standards (POSIX, Unix 95, Unix 98, and others). Some platforms define additional names as well. The names known to the host operating system are given as the keys of the confstr_names dictionary. For configuration variables not included in that mapping, passing an integer for name is also accepted. If the configuration value specified by name isn't defined, None is returned. If name is a string and is not known, ValueError is raised. If a specific value for name is not supported by the host system, even if it is included in confstr_names, an OSError is raised with errno.EINVAL for the error number. Dictionary mapping names accepted by confstr to the integer values defined for those names by the host operating system. This can be used to determine the set of names known to the system. Return the number of logical CPUs in the system. Returns None if undetermined. The process_cpu_count function can be used to get the number of logical CPUs usable by the calling thread of the current process. Return the number of processes in the system run queue averaged over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes or raises OSError if the load average was unobtainable. Get the number of logical CPUs usable by the calling thread of the current process. Returns None if undetermined. It can be less than cpu_count depending on the CPU affinity. The cpu_count function can be used to get the number of logical CPUs in the system. If -X cpu_count is given or PYTHON_CPU_COUNT is set, process_cpu_count returns the override value n. See also the sched_getaffinity function. Return integer-valued system configuration values. If the configuration value specified by name isn't defined, -1 is returned. The comments regarding the name parameter for confstr apply here as well; the dictionary that provides information on the known names is given by sysconf_names. Dictionary mapping names accepted by sysconf to the integer values defined for those names by the host operating system. This can be used to determine the set of names known to the system. The following data values are used to support path manipulation operations. These are defined for all platforms. … Attribution: Adapted from Python Documentation under PSF-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.