On 02/08/2014 7:36 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Phil Thompson
<p...@riverbankcomputing.com>
wrote:
To me the issue is whether, for a particular value of sys.platform,
the
programmer can expect a particular Python stdlib API. If so then
Android
needs a different value for sys.platform.
sys.platform is for a broad indication of the OS kernel. It can be used
to
distinguish Windows, Mac and Linux (and BSD, Solaris etc.). Since
Android
is Linux it should have the same sys.platform as other Linux systems
('linux2'). If you want to know whether a specific syscall is there,
check
for the presence of the method in the os module.
It's not just the os module - other modules contain code that would be
affected, but there are plenty of other parts of the Python stdlib that
aren't implemented on every platform. Using the approach you prefer then
all that's needed is to update the documentation to say that certain
things are not implemented on Android.
Phil
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