[Python-Dev] Exposing the Android platform existence to Python modules (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Fri Aug 1 08:46:21 CEST 2014

On 1 August 2014 02:54, Glenn Linderman <v+python at g.nevcal.com> wrote:

I've no idea what you mean by "userland" in your suggestions above or below, but doesn't the Android environment qualify as a (multi-versioned) platform independently of its host OS? Seems I've read about an Android reimplementation for Windows, for example. As long as all the services expected by Android are faithfully produced, the host OS may be irrelevant to an Android application... in which case, I would think/propose/suggest the platform name should change from win32 or linux to Android (and the Android version be reflected in version parts).

Alternatively, if having sys.platform be "linux" makes portability easier because code that does a platform check generally gets the right answer if Android reports as "linux", then why not make sys.linux_distribution report "android"?

To put it briefly, either android is the platform, or android is a specific distribution of the linux platform.

Paul

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