[stdlib-sig] gestalt, too?

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On 13 May, 2008, at 20:45, Brett Cannon wrote:
>>
>> At the moment, both directories and all files (including gestalt) have
>> been removed, so whomever adds the file back can choose the directory.
>> =)
>
> That won't be me, I barely have time to work on Python at the moment and am
> focussing all time I have on ensuring that Python2.6 will be the best
> possible release on OSX.
>
> How did you change platform? That module uses gestalt to calculate the osx
> platform version and architecture.
>

It looks like Benjamin didn't change it. The unit tests still passed,
though, possibly because platform.mac_ver() has a fallback if the
gestalt import failed.

I will create an issue to add back in gestalt. What about that little
module for urllib to get proxy info? How is that coming along?

-Brett