[issue12326] Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2'
Marc-Andre Lemburg
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Aug 19 15:35:27 CEST 2011
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:
Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>
> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
>
>> Please reread the quoted sentence:
>>
>> The *compile time* version information needs to be preserved.
>
> Then please give it a very explicit name, such as "sys.build_platform"
> or "sys.compile_time_version_info". We don't want people to be misled by
> yet another platform identification attribute.
Good idea.
We could simply write `uname -s -r -m` into the new attribute:
sys.build_platform = ('Linux', '2.6.34.8-0.2-desktop', 'x86_64')
and then have
sys.platform = 'linux'
for quick general platform checks.
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