Message 142272 - Python tracker

Message142272

Author	neologix
Recipients	Arfrever, Ramchandra Apte, amaury.forgeotdarc, barry, djc, dmalcolm, doko, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, foom, gagern, jwilk, lemburg, loewis, neologix, petri.lehtinen, pitrou, python-dev, r.david.murray, rosslagerwall, sandro.tosi, vstinner
Date	2011-08-17.12:39:26
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In-reply-to	<1313526190.95.0.939425704274.issue12326@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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2011/8/16 Dave Malcolm <report@bugs.python.org>: > So in this case, "sys.platform"'s final digit is reporting the major release of the kernel running outside the chroot-ed build environment (ironically bearing even less relationship to that of the currently-running kernel :( ) > > Hope this is helpful Thanks Dave. To me, this sounds like yet another reason not to use sys.platform (C) (TM) (R). > My patch version 2 Looks good to me.

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2011/8/16 Dave Malcolm <report@bugs.python.org>:
> So in this case, "sys.platform"'s final digit is reporting the major release of the kernel running outside the chroot-ed build environment (ironically bearing even less relationship to that of the currently-running kernel :( )
>
> Hope this is helpful

Thanks Dave.
To me, this sounds like yet another reason not to use sys.platform (C) (TM) (R).

> My patch version 2

Looks good to me.

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2011-08-17 12:39:27	neologix	set	recipients: + neologix, lemburg, loewis, barry, doko, amaury.forgeotdarc, gagern, foom, pitrou, vstinner, jwilk, djc, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, Arfrever, r.david.murray, dmalcolm, sandro.tosi, rosslagerwall, python-dev, petri.lehtinen, Ramchandra Apte
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2011-08-17 12:39:26	neologix	create