[Distutils] setup.cfg new format proposal

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Greg Ewing
<greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
>
>>   >>> sys.platform
>>   'linux2'
>>
>> "linux2"? What are the possible values for `sys.platform`?
>
> This is why I usually write Python code that checks sys.platform
> like
>
>  if sys.platform.startswith("linux"):
>    ...
>
> So the condition language for the metadata needs a "startswith"
> operator, I think.

What about 'in' ?

'linux' in sys.platform should cover all cases

>
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