Message 139166 - Python tracker

Message139166

Author	neologix
Recipients	Arfrever, amaury.forgeotdarc, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, jwilk, lemburg, loewis, neologix, petri.lehtinen, pitrou, r.david.murray, rosslagerwall, vstinner
Date	2011-06-26.10:47:56
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> So people who say sys.platform shouldn't be used: what do you propose > to do with Lib/plat-linux2 (or, more generally, Lib/plat-*)? I can't speak, as I've never used those. But can't those directories be renamed to Lib/plat-<platform.system()>? As for the performance overhead, since the platform module caches the result of uname or other function/subprocess calls, I don't think it's a showstopper. Furthermore, I somehow doubt those functions are performance bottlenecks anyway. Since Linux 3 is in RC now, is there a chance to reach a consensus in the near future?

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> So people who say sys.platform shouldn't be used: what do you propose
> to do with Lib/plat-linux2 (or, more generally, Lib/plat-*)?

I can't speak, as I've never used those.
But can't those directories be renamed to Lib/plat-<platform.system()>?

As for the performance overhead, since the platform module caches the result of uname or other function/subprocess calls, I don't think it's a showstopper. Furthermore, I somehow doubt those functions are performance bottlenecks anyway.

Since Linux 3 is in RC now, is there a chance to reach a consensus in the near future?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-06-26 10:47:57	neologix	set	recipients: + neologix, lemburg, loewis, amaury.forgeotdarc, pitrou, vstinner, jwilk, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, Arfrever, r.david.murray, rosslagerwall, petri.lehtinen
2011-06-26 10:47:57	neologix	set	messageid: <1309085277.1.0.915737174713.issue12326@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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