Returns system information as a dict

def get_sys_info():
    "Returns system information as a dict"

    blob = []

    # get full commit hash
    commit = None
    if os.path.isdir(".git") and os.path.isdir("xarray"):
        try:
            pipe = subprocess.Popen('git log --format="%H" -n 1'.split(" "),
                                    stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                                    stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
            so, serr = pipe.communicate()
        except Exception:
            pass
        else:
            if pipe.returncode == 0:
                commit = so
                try:
                    commit = so.decode('utf-8')
                except ValueError:
                    pass
                commit = commit.strip().strip('"')

    blob.append(('commit', commit))

    try:
        (sysname, nodename, release,
         version, machine, processor) = platform.uname()
        blob.extend([
            ("python", sys.version),
            ("python-bits", struct.calcsize("P") * 8),
            ("OS", "%s" % (sysname)),
            ("OS-release", "%s" % (release)),
            # ("Version", "%s" % (version)),
            ("machine", "%s" % (machine)),
            ("processor", "%s" % (processor)),
            ("byteorder", "%s" % sys.byteorder),
            ("LC_ALL", "%s" % os.environ.get('LC_ALL', "None")),
            ("LANG", "%s" % os.environ.get('LANG', "None")),
            ("LOCALE", "%s.%s" % locale.getlocale()),

        ])
    except Exception:
        pass

    return blob