Nick Coghlan wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Benjamin Peterson wrote: >>> I forgot to ask before: Does this deprecate >>> platform.python_implementation()? >> >> No, platform.py is meant to be portable across multiple Python >> versions and as such not really suitable for such deprecations. >> >> It'll also take a long while before all Python implementations >> expose a new sys module attribute along the proposed lines. > > However, the function could be updated to take advantage of the new > sys.implementation attribute when it was available. If it didn't find > it, it would fallback to figuring out the way it does now.
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