Barry A. Warsaw <ba...@python.org> added the comment: On Aug 18, 2011, at 03:58 PM, STINNER Victor wrote:
> >STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > >> I'm just suggesting one more special case for linux* > >You suggest to have a special case in Python 2.7 and 3.2, but not in Python >3.3 (3.1, 2.6, etc.)? Correct. We can't touch Python 3.1, 2.6, or earlier because those are all in security-only mode, and unless a specific security related issue is identified, the change should not be made there. That's just life (a recent similar example is support for multiarch in newer Debian and Ubuntu releases - we just don't support that in security-only Pythons). We can and should change Python 3.2 and 2.7 to only report 'linux2' for backward compatibility. For Python 3.3, we should do the right thing, which IMO is to set sys.platform to 'linux' without the version number. In parallel we can change the stdlib tests to use .startswith() and encourage third party developers to use .startswith() also. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
