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.

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