Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: STINNER Victor wrote: > > 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.
For Windows and Mac OS X, the minor version is relevant as well: Windows 7 has the version number 6.1. For Mac OS X, there are major changes happening for minor releases, e.g. see the architecture changes between 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6. > 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. ---------- title: platform: add a major function to get the system major version -> platform: add a major function to get the system major version _______________________________________ 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
