On 29 June 2000, Fred L. Drake, Jr. said:
I didn't know it ever returned linux-i386; perhaps you're thinking of Marc-Andre's platform module?
D'ohh! That appears to be an artifact of Red Hat's build -- I was using /usr/bin/python (theirs), not /usr/local/bin/python (mine). $ /usr/bin/python Python 1.5.2 (#1, Feb 1 2000, 16:32:16) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs- on linux-i386 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
sys.platform 'linux-i386'
Sorry for getting alarmist. Guess I never should have started using sys.platform in the first place (or just not worry about getting the CPU in there too). Greg -- Greg Ward - geek gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have!