STINNER Victor <vstin...@redhat.com> added the comment: > Why do you want to change this?
I created this issue after I read this comment: > https://bugs.python.org/issue35316#msg330633 > I will investigate with MacOS Mojave this week. "Mojave" seems to be the new thing, but I don't recall if my macbook is running it or not. So I checked "python3 -m platform" but it gives me... the darwin version. How am I supposed to guess the macOS version from this output? As an user, I see/use "High Sierra" name, or sometimes "macOS 10.12", but I never see/use darwin versions. Even inside Python, we rely on the macOS version, not the on the darwin version. For example, @requires_mac_ver of test.support rely on the *macOS* version. Example from test_math: # log2() is not accurate enough on Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) @support.requires_mac_ver(10, 5) def testLog2Exact(self): ... > The current behavior is consistent with the platform name (Darwin). I’ve > filed an issue in the past to change the platform name to “macosx”, but there > were good arguments to not change the behavior at the time. I don't expect that any library rely on platform.platform() to detect a platform, so I don't see any risk of backward incompatibility, whereas changing sys.platform would just break every single Python library for what? I don't see any benefit of replacing "darwin" with "macos" or "macosx". By the way, we use "win32" for sys.platform, whereas all Windows are now 64-bit... > W.r.t. failing when the Plist is not present: that is unlikely to happen > because this is a system file that is hard to remove and is AFAIK documented > to exist. I was talking about the plistlib module, not the file on the disk. I am talking about these lines from platform.py: try: import plistlib except ImportError: return None The import can fail for various reasons: module not provided by the Python implementation, missing depending (ex: "from xml.parsers.expat import ParserCreate" in plistlib.py causing an import error), etc. I'm not saying that it should be common on CPython, just that it might happen in some weird cases :-) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35344> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
