Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > > It means someone upgrading from 2.6 to 2.7 will see sys.platform change > > from "linux3" to "linux2". That breaks compatibility. > > No, it doesn't. Code that works on 2.6 and Linux 3 will likely support > both linux2 and linux3, so it will continue just fine on 2.7.
Then, let's just advise that all code follow the same path and use sys.platform.startswith() (which is really not a difficult change to make). ---------- _______________________________________ 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
