Martin v. Löwis <[email protected]> added the comment: > Then, let's just advise that all code follow the same path and use > sys.platform.startswith() (which is really not a difficult change to > make).
Antoine, please accept that people want better backwards compatibility than just recommendations how to rewrite applications. They want the code to continue to work *unmodified*. The proposed mechanism achieves this for the bug fix releases. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <[email protected]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12326> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
