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+import platform
+
+
+def get_platform():
+    """Return the current OS platform.
+
+    For example: if current os platform is Ubuntu then a string "ubuntu"
+    will be returned (which is the name of the module).
+    This string is used to decide which platform module should be imported.
+    """
+    # linux_distribution is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.7
+    # Warings *not* disabled, as we certainly need to fix this.
+    tuple_platform = platform.linux_distribution()
+    current_platform = tuple_platform[0]
+    if "Ubuntu" in current_platform:
+        return "ubuntu"
+    elif "CentOS" in current_platform:
+        return "centos"
+    elif "debian" in current_platform:
+        # Stock Python does not detect Ubuntu and instead returns debian.
+        # Or at least it does in some build environments like Travis CI
+        return "ubuntu"
+    else:
+        raise RuntimeError("This module is not supported on {}."
+                           .format(current_platform))