On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:48:41 +0530, David Lyon <david.l...@preisshare.net>
wrote:
My original point was only that 'win32' constant from the stdlib sys
module
is an
inaccurate constant to describe windows now. The stdlib platform module
uses
'Windows' and that seems better.
+1
I suggest to first have a standard library module/api that would give such
'friendly' names. This is what `platinfo` is heading towards:
http://code.google.com/p/platinfo/wiki/FutureWork .. to quote:
I'm considering using "mac" instead of "macosx" for PlatInfo.os on
Mac. Certainly not decided though. I guess my main motivation is
that a sufficiently unambiguous platform name for a universal Mac
package is "mac" ("macosx" seems a bit pointless).
Will use "windows" for PlatInfo.os instead of "win32" or
"win64". The old names were imperfect and misleading references to
either what used to be called the "win32 API" (but is now the
Windows API).
-srid
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