Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Éric Araujo wrote: > > Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: > > Is it guaranteed that the -b option will be present in every version of file?
Looking at the only use case of _syscmd_file(), it may not even be worth the trouble of adding the -b option. Fixing the doc-string may be enough: # Get data from the 'file' system command if executable: output = _syscmd_file(executable, '') else: output = '' ... # Split the output into a list of strings omitting the filename fileout = _architecture_split(output)[1:] Note how architecture() already chops off the filename, so it relies on the existing behavior, rather than the one described in the doc-string of _syscmd_file(). Sorry, Victor, for not spotting this earlier on. ---------- title: platform.py: use -b option for file command in _syscmd_file() -> platform.py: use -b option for file command in _syscmd_file() _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9560> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com