Lorin Hochstein added the comment:
Adding 'system' as one of the supported distros does the trick.
>>> platform.linux_distribution(supported_dists=['system'])
('Amazon Linux AMI', '2013.03', '')
Simple patch attached.
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Lorin Hochstein added the comment:
$ cat /etc/system-release
Amazon Linux AMI release 2013.03
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Python tracker
<http://bugs.python.org/issue18872>
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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()
('
