[Python-Dev] Mapping Darwin 8.2.0 to Mac OS X 10.4.2 in platform.py

Wilfredo Sánchez Vega wsanchez at apple.com
Thu Sep 22 19:31:54 CEST 2005


   IIRC, it doesn't exist on such a system; that's a Mac OS command,  
not a Darwin command.  (The man page correctly has "Mac OS X" in the  
footnote, not "Darwin" or "BSD", though I don't know that you can  
rely on that 100%.)

     -wsv


On Sep 22, 2005, at 10:20 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> On 9/22/05, Wilfredo Sánchez Vega <wsanchez at apple.com> wrote:
>
>>    "rhapsody" is emitted by uname on Mac OS X Server 1.x, but not on
>> anything we ship today.
>>
>>    Bob's right, the version number from uname only tells you about
>> the kernel, and not whether, for example, the Cocoa API is on the
>> system (it wouldn't be on a standalone Darwin OS install, which will
>> have the same uname output).
>>
>
> Just curious -- what would sw_vers print on such a system?

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