New submission from Lorin Hochstein:
Amazon EC2 has their own Fedora-like Linux distribution
(http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/). This distribution isn't recognized
by platform.linux_distribution():
>>> import platform
>>> platform.linux_distribution()
('', '', '')
$ cat /etc/issue
Amazon Linux AMI release 2013.03
Kernel \r on an \m
Tested on Python 2.6.8.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 196420
nosy: Lorin.Hochstein
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: platform.linux_distribution() doesn't recognize Amazon Linux
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6
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