https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e3eba8ce266f90d9f8faeb5b2b4b64e56110bd2a
commit: e3eba8ce266f90d9f8faeb5b2b4b64e56110bd2a
branch: main
author: Michael Osipov <[email protected]>
committer: vstinner <[email protected]>
date: 2025-01-31T10:02:45+01:00
summary:
gh-129393: Make 'sys.platform' return "freebsd" only on FreeBSD (#129394)
Make 'sys.platform' return "freebsd" only on FreeBSD without major version.
files:
A
Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2025-01-28-10-26-04.gh-issue-129393.0eICq6.rst
M Doc/library/sys.rst
M Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst
M configure
M configure.ac
diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst
index 151fd60532048a..5a096235713319 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sys.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst
@@ -1422,6 +1422,7 @@ always available. Unless explicitly noted otherwise, all
variables are read-only
AIX ``'aix'``
Android ``'android'``
Emscripten ``'emscripten'``
+ FreeBSD ``'freebsd'``
iOS ``'ios'``
Linux ``'linux'``
macOS ``'darwin'``
@@ -1432,12 +1433,12 @@ always available. Unless explicitly noted otherwise,
all variables are read-only
On Unix systems not listed in the table, the value is the lowercased OS name
as returned by ``uname -s``, with the first part of the version as returned
by
- ``uname -r`` appended, e.g. ``'sunos5'`` or ``'freebsd8'``, *at the time
- when Python was built*. Unless you want to test for a specific system
- version, it is therefore recommended to use the following idiom::
+ ``uname -r`` appended, e.g. ``'sunos5'``, *at the time when Python was
built*.
+ Unless you want to test for a specific system version, it is therefore
+ recommended to use the following idiom::
- if sys.platform.startswith('freebsd'):
- # FreeBSD-specific code here...
+ if sys.platform.startswith('sunos'):
+ # SunOS-specific code here...
.. versionchanged:: 3.3
On Linux, :data:`sys.platform` doesn't contain the major version anymore.
@@ -1451,6 +1452,10 @@ always available. Unless explicitly noted otherwise, all
variables are read-only
On Android, :data:`sys.platform` now returns ``'android'`` rather than
``'linux'``.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.14
+ On FreeBSD, :data:`sys.platform` doesn't contain the major version
anymore.
+ It is always ``'freebsd'``, instead of ``'freebsd13'`` or
``'freebsd14'``.
+
.. seealso::
:data:`os.name` has a coarser granularity. :func:`os.uname` gives
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst
index 8d4cb94ae2d805..484e306335829a 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst
@@ -649,6 +649,9 @@ sys
which only exists in specialized builds of Python, may now return objects
from other interpreters than the one it's called in.
+* On FreeBSD, :data:`sys.platform` doesn't contain the major version anymore.
+ It is always ``'freebsd'``, instead of ``'freebsd13'`` or ``'freebsd14'``.
+
sys.monitoring
--------------
diff --git
a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2025-01-28-10-26-04.gh-issue-129393.0eICq6.rst
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2025-01-28-10-26-04.gh-issue-129393.0eICq6.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..e36e6f565efd81
--- /dev/null
+++
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2025-01-28-10-26-04.gh-issue-129393.0eICq6.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+On FreeBSD, :data:`sys.platform` doesn't contain the major version anymore.
+It is always ``'freebsd'``, instead of ``'freebsd13'`` or ``'freebsd14'``.
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 885c2cf7828d6c..3eb787f788bfb9 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -4132,6 +4132,7 @@ then
case $MACHDEP in
aix*) MACHDEP="aix";;
+ freebsd*) MACHDEP="freebsd";;
linux-android*) MACHDEP="android";;
linux*) MACHDEP="linux";;
cygwin*) MACHDEP="cygwin";;
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f89a0801948ca5..c0130b8082cd8a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ then
case $MACHDEP in
aix*) MACHDEP="aix";;
+ freebsd*) MACHDEP="freebsd";;
linux-android*) MACHDEP="android";;
linux*) MACHDEP="linux";;
cygwin*) MACHDEP="cygwin";;
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