STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: FreeBSD or OpenBSD release major version frequently, something like one per year, or one per two years. FreeBSD and OpenBSD developers knows that for years, and Python programs use sys.platform.startswith() for these OSes.
For Linux, it's different. Linux 2.0 was released in 1997 and 3.0 in 2011: it took 14 years to change the major version. It don't think that any program working on Linux was prepared for this change: see #12326 history to have an idea on the problem. It looks like sys.platform=='linux3' breaks most programs testing sys.platform (including Python itself because of Lib/plat-linux2/ directory). If you want the OS name, use platform.system() or os.uname()[0]. If you want the OS version, use platform.release(). If you want the OS version as a tuple, hum... see the issue #12794. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12795> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
