[issue12326] Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2'

STINNER Victor report at bugs.python.org
Thu Aug 18 17:45:45 CEST 2011


STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

> I still think that sys.platform for the stable releases should 
> never report 'linux3'

I don't understand why do you want to have a special case for Linux. sys.platform is already different for each major version of:

 * FreeBSD
 * OpenBSD
 * NetBSD
 * unixware
 * openunix
 * sco_sv
 * sunos
 * hp-ux

(Ok, some of them are dead and you cannot expect new major versions :-))

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