Message 138711 - Python tracker

Message138711

Author	neologix
Recipients	Arfrever, amaury.forgeotdarc, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, jwilk, lemburg, loewis, neologix, pitrou, rosslagerwall, vstinner
Date	2011-06-20.13:48:44
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> However, it appears to me that vast majority of them is broken anyway, > because what they really mean to check is That's exactly my point. Code checking sys.platform against 'linux2' is already broken, there's no point in complicating the code further, or adding a new constant. If you want to check for a specific operating system, there's already platform.system().

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> However, it appears to me that vast majority of them is broken anyway,
> because what they really mean to check is

That's exactly my point.
Code checking sys.platform against 'linux2' is already broken, there's
no point in complicating the code further, or adding a new constant.
If you want to check for a specific operating system, there's already
platform.system().

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-06-20 13:48:45	neologix	set	recipients: + neologix, lemburg, loewis, amaury.forgeotdarc, pitrou, vstinner, jwilk, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, Arfrever, rosslagerwall
2011-06-20 13:48:45	neologix	link	issue12326 messages
2011-06-20 13:48:44	neologix	create