[New-bugs-announce] [issue8772] sysconfig: _get_default_scheme can be made public?

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

New submission from Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com>:

Currently there is no way to get the default scheme for *current* platform other than plainly *assuming* that that is os.name unless it is posix, in which case it becomes posix_prefix. 

PyPM needs to know this. But I am slightly reluctant to hardcode it. I would rather use the _get_default_scheme() .. but only if it is known to be maintained for backward compat.

Thoughts?

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
messages: 106122
nosy: srid, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: sysconfig: _get_default_scheme can be made public?
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2

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