Michael Felt <aixto...@felt.demon.nl> added the comment:

On 12/04/2019 17:34, STINNER Victor wrote:
> STINNER Victor <vstin...@redhat.com> added the comment:
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>> But, should I just continue standard practice (sys.platform), or would
>> this be a moment to move towards platform.system() (i.e., set the
>> example to be to use "run-time" rather than "build-time").
> Oh, now I'm confused :-) I checked the Python test suite: some tests use 
> sys.platform == "linux" or sys.platform in ("linux", ...), some tests uses 
> sys.platform.startswith("linux").
>
> In case of doubt, I suggest to do nothing :-) Leave the code unchanged :-)

Agreed, in case of doubt - leave alone (never change a winning team).

And, to make it a short reply - I'll get started, and we see where it
leads us.

Michael

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