[Python-Dev] Add platform.py to the standard lib ?!

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Sun, 06 Jan 2002 23:15:51 +0100


Jason Orendorff wrote:
> 
> > Should I go ahead and checkin platform.py into the Python 2.2
> > tree together with some docs ?
> 
> I noticed that the regular expressions in this module, throughout,
> don't use raw strings.  Don't know if that's intentional.

It's not necessary since the escapes used in the module are
not unescaped by the Python parser, but you're probably right:
better safe than sorry...

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