Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:56 AM songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote: >> Thomas Jollans wrote: >> ... >> > I'm fairly sure "win32" was used on W9x as well. In any case it *was* >> > correct at the time, as early versions of Python also ran on DOS and >> > Windows 3.1. "windows" would not have been suitable. >> > >> > But yeah, we're stuck with it. There are obviously good reasons that it >> > wasn't changed when we moved to amd64, but it is annoying. >> >> to me it is confusing and looks outdated so it >> did not give me much confidence i had found the >> right thing to use and so i kept looking further. >> if someone could put a note in the docs about >> this it will likely help others. > > Put a note somewhere in Microsoft's docs or something - this isn't a > Python-specific thing.
the document i quoted is a python document. songbird -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
