Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: R. David Murray wrote: > > R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: > > MAL wrote: > >> As already mentioned, the diff between Linux 2.x and 3.x will >> grow over time and while there may not be much to see now, >> things will change in the coming years. > > The only way I can read this argument that makes any sense to me is that you > are arguing for a precise build-time OS string. If it is supposed to be an > argument in favor of keeping 'linux3' it makes no sense, since '2' vs '3' is > in no way a useful line of demarcation when it comes to linux.
Indeed. See the sys.build_platform attribute we discussed. > So, if you think there is a *run time* need to know the precise *build time* > OS version number, can you point to any specific use cases? I already mentioned those use cases. Please see the ticket discussion. ---------- _______________________________________ 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