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From: | "Norman Vine" <nhv AT cape DOT com> |
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Subject: | RE: uname -s question |
Date: | Sat, 24 Feb 2001 19:43:43 -0500 |
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Christopher Faylor writes: > >On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 07:21:37PM -0500, Norman Vine wrote: >>Christopher Faylor writes: >>>>Which would enable constructs like the following to work: >>>> >>>> if sys.platform in ['cygwin', 'linux']: >>>> # ... >>> >>>Can't you do something equivalent with regular expressions in python? >> >>Of course, we are doing something 'equivalent' and will >contiue todo so. > >I was trying to get a handle on why this was a problem. Judging by >usages in most of the configure scripts in sources.redhat.com and by >perl's Configure, the convention for many systems is to refer to the >system name with a wildcard (e.g., netbsd*), when necessary. > >I was trying to determine why this was not acceptable for Python. FYI Here is the original comment that led to this question. > > Looking at the GuessOS helper in the Apache source distribution > > I'd say that cygwin is completely non-standard in returning > > version information with uname -s. Norman Vine
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