Marc-Andre Lemburg <[email protected]> added the comment:
STINNER Victor wrote:
>
> STINNER Victor <[email protected]> added the comment:
>
>> sys.platform refers to build time information,
>> so the platform module won't help.
>
> When I wrote my patch, I realized that sys.platform is used to get the
> runtime information, which is wrong. See the tests in Lib/test/test_*.py:
> they use sys.platform to check features of the running OS (kernel). It is
> mostly to test FreeBSD major version, and it looks like Python is build on
> the same FreeBSD major version that it is running on. Maybe because on
> FreeBSD, most programs are compiled instead of using prebuild packages
> (pkgadd).
Right. FreeBSD doesn't ship prebuilt binaries for packages -
it uses a very elegant "ports" collection, where everything gets
compiled on the target machine:
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/
So you don't really run into the issue of using a older Python build
on the system, unless you have an application which ships Python
along with the application package.
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