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

Shiz mark at xn--hwg34fba.ws
Fri Aug 1 14:32:48 CEST 2014

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

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.linuxdistribution report "android"? To put it briefly, either android is the platform, or android is a specific distribution of the linux platform. Paul

That might maybe work better. I was assuming a userland perspective because I’ve been honestly mostly wrestling with Bionic, Android’s libc, but putting that into perspective to consider Android as a whole (after all, the SDK and NDK are what make Android for a lot of developers) might be a valid other approach as well.

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