[Python-Dev] Hey! who changed sys.platform?!

[Greg Ward]

On 29 June 2000, Fred L. Drake, Jr. said:
>   I didn't know it ever returned linux-i386; perhaps you're thinking
> of Marc-Andre's platform module?

D'ohh!  That appears to be an artifact of Red Hat's build -- I was using
/usr/bin/python (theirs), not /usr/local/bin/python (mine).

  $ /usr/bin/python
  Python 1.5.2 (#1, Feb  1 2000, 16:32:16)  [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs- on linux-i386
  Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
  >>> sys.platform
  'linux-i386'

Sorry for getting alarmist.  Guess I never should have started using
sys.platform in the first place (or just not worry about getting the CPU
in there too).

        Greg
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