The "good" thing is that sys.platform reports the [major] version
Python was *built* on, so our binary distributions (if built on a 2.x
kernel) won't break on 3.x Linux kernels, at least not because someone
uses sys.platform=="linux2" to detect Linux.
The suggested idiom to use instead is sys.platform.startswith("linux")
(which is a compile-time constant); of course there are other ways to
[almost] achieve the same, e.g. using os.uname()[0]=="Linux", where
the latter is determined at run- rather than compile-time.
-leif
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