Marc-Andre Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Zooko, I think the main reason for the parser in platform.py to fail on Ubuntu is that Ubuntu doesn't ship with a /etc/ubuntu-release file and instead uses the optional override parameters in /etc/lsb-release to setup the distribution values.
E.g. on my Ubuntu box it has these lines: DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.10" I guess we'll need to add a special parser for lsb-release files which then gets tried *after* having tried the /etc/<distro>-release files (this is how the lsb_release command works as well) and overrides any settings found in the <distro>-release file. If that doesn't work either, the function will need to fallback to _dist_try_harder(). There's no need to start a subprocess for running lsb_release. Please also note that the subprocess module is not available in Python 2.1, so it's not an option anyway (platform.py defines it's own popen() helper which should be used instead). _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1322> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
