STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > I'm not sure I understand why platform.release() isn't sufficient > for this purpose. Note that some systems return alphanumeric > values for platform.release(), e.g. for Windows you get > 'NT' or 'XP'.
It's not easy to get 2 (int) from '2.6.38-8-generic' (str). For Windows, there *is* a major version: * Windows 3.1 : 3 * Windows 95/98, NT 4 : 4 * Windows XP, 2003 : 5 * Vista, Seven : 6 The major version is maybe less revelant for Windows. Anyway... > platform.major() will be needed if we remove the major > version for all platforms from sys.platform (issue #12795). I just closed the issue #12795, and so I don't think that this issue is still needed and so I close it. Reopen it if you still see an use case. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12794> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
