On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: > >> >>> sys.platform >> 'linux2' >> >> "linux2"? What are the possible values for `sys.platform`? > > This is why I usually write Python code that checks sys.platform > like > > if sys.platform.startswith("linux"): > ... > > So the condition language for the metadata needs a "startswith" > operator, I think.
What about 'in' ? 'linux' in sys.platform should cover all cases > > -- > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - distutils-...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org | オープンソースはすごい! _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig