Issue 5284: platform.linux_distribution() improperly documented (original) (raw)

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Created on 2009-02-16 21:41 by aronacher, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg82273 - (view)	Author: Armin Ronacher (aronacher) *	Date: 2009-02-16 21:41
platform.linux_distribution() was added in 2.6 as an alias for platform.dist(). However the documentation lists platform.dist() as an alias for platform.linux_distribution() and there is no information that the latter appered in 2.6 whereas the former exists since 2.4 I think. Not sure what the fix is, but it should be documented properly with ".. versionadded:: 2.6".
msg82306 - (view)	Author: Marc-Andre Lemburg (lemburg) *	Date: 2009-02-17 09:26
On 2009-02-16 22:42, Armin Ronacher wrote: > New submission from Armin Ronacher <armin.ronacher@active-4.com>: > > platform.linux_distribution() was added in 2.6 as an alias for > platform.dist(). However the documentation lists platform.dist() as an > alias for platform.linux_distribution() and there is no information that > the latter appered in 2.6 whereas the former exists since 2.4 I think. > Not sure what the fix is, but it should be documented properly with ".. > versionadded:: 2.6". Note that dist() redirects to linux_distribution(), not the other way around. I'll add the versionadded tags and also clarify the dist() documentation: it's missing a comment that full_distribution_name is set to false when redirecting to linux_distribution().
msg82334 - (view)	Author: Marc-Andre Lemburg (lemburg) *	Date: 2009-02-17 12:50
Fixed in r69717.