Matthew Scott <m...@11craft.com> added the comment: In the cases of both Python 3.x and 2.x, get_platform() is deriving information about the version of OSX from the 'MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET' dictionary returned by distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars().
Using Python 3.2.2: In [1]: import distutils.sysconfig;distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars()['MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET'] Out[1]: '10.6' Using Python 2.7.1: In [1]: import distutils.sysconfig;distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars()['MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET'] Out[1]: '10.7' While the deployment target seems like a useful source of information, it does not seem to be accurate enough to "Return a string that identifies the current platform" as the docstring for distutils.util.get_platform() suggests. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14498> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
