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("pandas"):
        try:
            pipe = subprocess.Popen('git log --format="%H" -n 1'.split(" "),
                                    stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                                    stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
            so, serr = pipe.communicate()
        except (OSError, ValueError):
            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", '.'.join(map(str, sys.version_info))),
            ("python-bits", struct.calcsize("P") * 8),
            ("OS", "{sysname}".format(sysname=sysname)),
            ("OS-release", "{release}".format(release=release)),
            # ("Version", "{version}".format(version=version)),
            ("machine", "{machine}".format(machine=machine)),
            ("processor", "{processor}".format(processor=processor)),
            ("byteorder", "{byteorder}".format(byteorder=sys.byteorder)),
            ("LC_ALL", "{lc}".format(lc=os.environ.get('LC_ALL', "None"))),
            ("LANG", "{lang}".format(lang=os.environ.get('LANG', "None"))),
            ("LOCALE", '.'.join(map(str, locale.getlocale()))),
        ])
    except (KeyError, ValueError):
        pass

    return blob