[issue8964] platform._sys_version does not parse correctly IronPython 2.x version

[Martin Matusiak]

Martin Matusiak added the comment:

Attaching a v3 which uses "in" and "startswith".


Just for good measure I ran this module on IronPython 1.0 and it fails on import:

- bytes literal: b'(__libc_init)'
- "if" as infix operator: line 177
- "unexpected token open": use of "with" context manager on line 334
- "as" keyword: except OSError as why: line 430
- ImportError: No module named os. os and subprocess are missing altogether in IronPython 1.0.

That's as far as I looked - there may be other issues still. 

So I decided to isolate this one function and see if it works. It fails because re.ASCII does not exist. If I remove that then the function runs and parses its own sys.version correctly.

But it may be a bit of a stretch at this point to stay compatible that far back.

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file32221/issue8964_v3.diff

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