[New-bugs-announce] [issue18872] platform.linux_distribution() doesn't recognize Amazon Linux

[Lorin Hochstein]

New submission from Lorin Hochstein:

Amazon EC2 has their own Fedora-like Linux distribution (http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/). This distribution isn't recognized by platform.linux_distribution():

>>> import platform
>>> platform.linux_distribution()
('', '', '')

$ cat /etc/issue
Amazon Linux AMI release 2013.03
Kernel \r on an \m

Tested on Python 2.6.8.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 196420
nosy: Lorin.Hochstein
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: platform.linux_distribution() doesn't recognize Amazon Linux
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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