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

[David Ascher]

> > Not that I hope to override the heavy -1, but I don't agree
> with the second
> > point.  It embodies a huge amount of knowledge that is needed to write
> > portable code.  As such, IMO, it _does_ belong in the standard
> library.  How
> > is it different in its nature from sys.platform, which is only
> a much weaker
> > version of the same concept?
>
> A more subtle way of stating my opinion could be: if we were to do
> something in the standard distribution about the problems that this is
> addressing, I think we would do it in a much more direct fashion,
> e.g. by making the appropriate enquiry functions directly accessible.
>
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

I much prefer that answer, as it leaves the door open to a patch.  I don't
care about the implementation, just the feature.  Thanks.

--david