Christian Heimes added the comment: I'm not suggesting a generic platform detection function but rather a limited function just for os-release. On platforms without /etc/os-release the function should obviously fail and raise an exception. /etc/os-release is available on distributions without systemd. Even my oldest Debian installation on a Raspberry Pi has it.
A large majority of Linux distributions has the file. It's available on Debian, Fedora, RHEL 6+, Ubuntu 14.04+ and many more. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28468> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
