Message 73651 - Python tracker

Message73651

Author	zooko
Recipients	draghuram, lemburg, zooko
Date	2008-09-23.17:15:58
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Message-id	<1222190160.19.0.0360147540162.issue3937@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Here is an updated version of my patch which tries parsing /etc/lsb-release first and only if that fails tries executing lsb_release. The reason is that executing lsb_release in a subprocess takes half-a-second on my high-performance Athlon64 Ubuntu workstation, and also that some installations have /etc/lsb-release but not lsb_release. See the docstring for more details about why to do it this way and exactly what it does.

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Here is an updated version of my patch which tries parsing
/etc/lsb-release first and only if that fails tries executing
lsb_release.  The reason is that executing lsb_release in a subprocess
takes half-a-second on my high-performance Athlon64 Ubuntu workstation,
and also that some installations have /etc/lsb-release but not
lsb_release.  See the docstring for more details about why to do it this
way and exactly what it does.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-09-23 17:16:01	zooko	set	recipients: + zooko, lemburg, draghuram
2008-09-23 17:16:00	zooko	set	messageid: <1222190160.19.0.0360147540162.issue3937@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-09-23 17:15:59	zooko	link	issue3937 messages
2008-09-23 17:15:59	zooko	create