Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: On 2009-02-16 22:42, Armin Ronacher wrote: > New submission from Armin Ronacher <armin.ronac...@active-4.com>: > > platform.linux_distribution() was added in 2.6 as an alias for > platform.dist(). However the documentation lists platform.dist() as an > alias for platform.linux_distribution() and there is no information that > the latter appered in 2.6 whereas the former exists since 2.4 I think.
> Not sure what the fix is, but it should be documented properly with ".. > versionadded:: 2.6". Note that dist() redirects to linux_distribution(), not the other way around. I'll add the versionadded tags and also clarify the dist() documentation: it's missing a comment that full_distribution_name is set to false when redirecting to linux_distribution(). _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5284> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
