Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerw...@gmail.com> added the comment: > 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().
I would agree with this. Perhaps the documentation for sys.platform could be changed to mention that platform.system() should maybe be used instead. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12326> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
