[issue12326] Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2'

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> The suggested change removes the compile time information from
> the platform string, so that information needs to be preserved
> in a new attribute.

-1 on any new platform identification attribute. We already have too
many of them, and there's the platform module for precise
identification.

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