Charles-François Natali <[email protected]> added the comment:

> However, it appears to me that vast majority of them is broken anyway,
> because what they really mean to check is

That's exactly my point.
Code checking sys.platform against 'linux2' is already broken, there's
no point in complicating the code further, or adding a new constant.
If you want to check for a specific operating system, there's already
platform.system().

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