Brian Curtin added the comment:
Agreed. This started out as a knee-jerk reaction to regrtest not working, but
the problem is deeper.
Closing this. The structseq stuff is being dealt with elsewhere.
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resolution: -> rejected
stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected
status: open -> cl
Eric Smith added the comment:
Surely we don't want to find every place that uses structseq and fix them. This
will no doubt break user code as well.
I think we'll need to fix structseq to somehow have its old behavior.
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nosy: +eric.smith
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Brian Curtin added the comment:
The following little patch could do the trick.
--- platform.py (revision 82643)
+++ platform.py (working copy)
@@ -606,7 +606,9 @@
# Find out the registry key and some general version infos
winver = GetVersionEx()
-maj,min,buildno,plat,csd = winv
New submission from Brian Curtin :
The change to #8413 broke the use of sys.getwindowsversion() in
platform.platform() calls on Windows, which subsequently breaks all runs of
regrtest (e.g. buildbots) since it outputs platform info at the start.
Now that structseq subclasses tuple, every field
