On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:56 AM songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote: > > Thomas Jollans wrote: > ... > > I'm fairly sure "win32" was used on W9x as well. In any case it *was* > > correct at the time, as early versions of Python also ran on DOS and > > Windows 3.1. "windows" would not have been suitable. > > > > But yeah, we're stuck with it. There are obviously good reasons that it > > wasn't changed when we moved to amd64, but it is annoying. > > to me it is confusing and looks outdated so it > did not give me much confidence i had found the > right thing to use and so i kept looking further. > if someone could put a note in the docs about > this it will likely help others.
Put a note somewhere in Microsoft's docs or something - this isn't a Python-specific thing. > in this age where things look to me very fragmented > and then abandoned it is hard to know what is and > isn't being maintained without looking for issue > trackers and bugs and seeing if anyone is actively > fixing things or not (multiply this by the number > of modules being used and it drains more time). > I'm not sure what you're asking for. You want evidence that things are changing, but without looking at the place where changes get changed? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
