[Python-Dev] Mac OS X sys.platform value (original) (raw)

Greg Ward gward@python.net
Thu, 6 Dec 2001 21:27:57 -0500

On 05 December 2001, Jack Jansen said:

Anyway, where sys.platform used to be "darwin1" upto and including 10.1.0 it is now "darwin5" for 10.1.1 (and it will go up to "darwin6" for 10.2, etc).

I am of a mind to take the "1" out of sys.platform, so that it becomes "darwin".

+1 from me. If we could turn the clock back 5 or 6 years, I would also do the same on Linux.

Note that I share Marc-Andr�'s dim view of tacking the first digit of the kernel version number (or whatever) onto sys.platform -- the Distutils has Yet Another way of creating platform descriptions. It's more complex than sys.platform, but quite a lot less fancy than Marc-Andr�'s platform.py.

See distutils.util.get_platform(), if you're curious.

    Greg

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