feat: add some platform info to events #198
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PR Summary
This PR adds platform information to events captured by the PostHog Python client, enhancing error tracking capabilities with environmental context.
- Added
get_os_info()function in/posthog/client.pythat detects and standardizes OS name and version across Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, and other platforms - Added
system_context()function that returns Python runtime, Python version, OS name, and OS version information - Modified the
capturemethod to include system context in event properties - Implemented platform-specific detection logic using
sys.platformandplatformmodule with fallbacks for different Python versions - Added special handling for Linux distributions to extract version information from either deprecated
platform.linux_distribution()or the newerdistromodule
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this isn't very useful in product analytics but would be super useful in error tracking