--- a/CHANGES.txt	Thu May 21 08:19:03 2020 +0200
+++ b/CHANGES.txt	Thu May 21 08:32:37 2020 +0200
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@
       The ``OS`` namespace lookup did not handle non-existing variables
       properly and ignored the `default` parameter.
 
+   .. change::
+      :tags: feature
+
+      Implemented new namespace function ``OS:node`` to return the node's
+      computername.
+
 
 .. changelog::
    :version: 0.7.3

--- a/configmix/variables.py	Thu May 21 08:19:03 2020 +0200
+++ b/configmix/variables.py	Thu May 21 08:32:37 2020 +0200
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 from __future__ import division, absolute_import, print_function
 
 import os
+import platform
 from functools import wraps
 
 from .compat import PY2, native_os_str_to_text, u
@@ -36,6 +37,8 @@
     """Lookup some process and/or OS state """
     if name == "cwd":
         return native_os_str_to_text(os.getcwd())
+    elif name == "node":
+        return native_os_str_to_text(platform.node())
     else:
         if default is _MARKER:
             raise KeyError("key %r not found in the namespace" % name)
@@ -45,7 +48,6 @@
 
 def _pylookup(name, default=_MARKER):
     """Lookup Python specific information"""
-    import platform
     if name == "version":
         return u(platform.python_version())
     elif name == "implementation":

--- a/docs/introduction.rst	Thu May 21 08:19:03 2020 +0200
+++ b/docs/introduction.rst	Thu May 21 08:32:37 2020 +0200
@@ -258,6 +258,10 @@
      ``cwd``
          Contains the current working directory of the process
 
+     ``node``
+         Contains the current node's computername (or whatever
+         :py:func:`platform.node` returns)
+
 3. The namespace ``ENV``
 
    This namespace contains all the environment variables as they are