New submission from Zooko O'Whielacronx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: platform.dist() returns ('debian', 'lenny/sid', '') on my Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy system. Investigating shows that there are a few techniques in platform.py to parse the version-number-files of different Linux distributions. This patch adds a command to try executing "lsb_release" first of all. lsb_release is the standard way to do this, originally published in 2001:
http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_1.0.0/gLSB/lsbrelease.html and currently standardized here: http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/lsbrelease.html If invoking "lsb_release" results in exit code 0 and some non-empty, non-all-whitespace string on stdout, then dist() returns that. Else, dist falls back to the old (current) hacks. There is a drawback to this: invoking three successive subprocesses takes a bit of time. Hopefully nobody needs to invoke platform.dist() in a time-critical moment... With this patch, platform.dist() return: ('Ubuntu', '8.04', 'hardy') Oh, this patch also updates the docstring of dist() to explain what is meant by "distribution", "version", and "id". ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: dist.patch.txt messages: 73601 nosy: zooko severity: normal status: open title: platform.dist(): detect Linux distribution version in a robust, standard way type: behavior versions: Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 3.0 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11562/dist.patch.txt _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3937> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com