[Python-Dev] Hey! who changed sys.platform?!

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > > Regarding platform.py:
> > >
> > > M.-A. Lemburg writes:
> > >  > Why not simply include it in distutils ?
> > >
> > >   Why not include it in the standard library?
> > >   Guido?  I'll document it if Marc-Andre is willing to provide the
> > > module and the regression test.
> >
> > No objection from here.
> >
> > I've attached my most recent copy to this mail. I'm not sure
> > how to write the regr. test though since output is dependent
> > on the platform running the functions... perhaps I'll just
> > add something like the audio thingie: "This string ought
> > to identify the platform you are currently running... if not,
> > then something is wrong ;-)".
> 
> You didn't include it!

I posted a reply to fix this ;-)
 
> But I vote -1 on this one anyway -- it's too much code and almost by
> its very nature not something that belongs in a "standard" library.
> Plus, I don't want to be responsible for maintaining it.  Sorry,

You don't have to maintain it... I will anyway since it's part
of mxCGIPython.

Anyway, perhaps Greg Ward can find some use for it in
distutils.

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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