Sam Ferencik added the comment: Thanks for the context.
> A compatibility issue here is that the value provided by get_platform() is > also used outside of Distutils, in particular by pkg_resources (provided by > setuptools) and by pip, in both cases to help determine whether a binary > distribution of an extension module is compatible with the python being used. If your wording is correct, and get_platform() really is used to determine "the python being used," then we could actually be improving things by fixing this. Currently, get_platform() doesn't tell you the bitness of the *python* being used, but the bitness of the *OS* being used (the two of which only differ on 32-on-64). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18987> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
