[stdlib-sig] gestalt, too?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 14 May, 2008, at 22:07, Brett Cannon wrote:

> 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 guess I'll have to find some time to add some unittests for  
platform.mac_ver then ;-)

>
>
> 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?

That's already committed in the trunk, I guess it will be merged in  
py3k later on.

Ronald